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Dan Cogan

American film producer and director

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Dan Cogan is an American film producer. He has produced multiple documentary films including The Queen of Versailles (2012), How to Survive a Plague (2012), The Hunting Ground (2015), Icarus (2017), Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), On the Record (2020), and has produced documentary series including I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2020), and Allen v. Farrow (2021). Cogan is the co-founder of Impact Partners, Gamechanger Films, and Story Syndicate.

Cogan has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Icarus and The Apollo (2019), and has been nominated for two other Emmy awards.

01Career

In 2007, Cogan co-founded Impact Partners a documentary film and television production company alongside Geralyn Dreyfous. Cogan has produced multiple films which have gone on to receive Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominations including Hell and Back Again, directed by Danfung Dennis, How to Survive a Plague by David France, and Icarus, directed by Bryan Fogel, which won the award. By January 2020, Cogan stepped down and began serving as an advisor to the company.

Cogan has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, for Icarus, The Fourth Estate, The Apollo, which won the award, and Allen v. Farrow. For his work on the docuseries Nuclear Family he was a nominee for a 2021 Peabody Award.

In 2013, Cogan co-founded Gamechanger Films, a production company dedicated to financing films directed by women. In June 2019, Cogan co-founded Story Syndicate, a film and television production company alongside Liz Garbus.

02Personal life

Cogan is married to Liz Garbus, and the two have two children together.

03Filmography

04Externals

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