Latest in Dan Cogan

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has inked Story Syndicate, which was co-founded by Emmy-winning filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus and Oscar-winning producer Dan Cogan in 2019. The agency will be representing Story Syndicate across all areas worldwide. UTA also reps Garbus individually. Story Syndicate is known for its…

Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young is not only the creator and director of the HBO Documentary Films series Nuclear Family, but also one of its main subjects. The three-part series revolves around her upbringing as the daughter of a lesbian couple, Sandy Russo and Robin Young. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, couples like…

EXCLUSIVE: Story Syndicate, the New York-based film and television production company founded by Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaking couple Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, has added four executives to its growing ranks. Joining Story Syndicate in the newly-created role of COO is Mala Chapple, a Peabody-winning and Emmy…

Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young has built a successful career in Hollywood, directing The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) and Before I Fall (2017), among other titles. Those two films were fictional tales adapted from novels, but for real-life drama she need look no further than her own childhood. At age 9 Russo-Young became the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is doubling down on its investment in the GameStop story with a new documentary series from Emmy and Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus. The streamer has ordered and is in production on a series that tells the viral story of rebel retail traders taking on Wall Street – a David vs…

With the 2020 presidential election less than three months away, Amazon Studios revisits Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race with the trailer for its latest political doc All In: The Fight for Democracy. The film from Oscar-nominated filmmakers Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés takes a closer look at voter suppression in the…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic has set its next documentary, which will focus on famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. Two-time Oscar-nominated and two-time Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (The Farm, Angola USA, What Happened, Miss Simone?) will direct and produce, with Oscar winner Dan Cogan (Icarus) as producer…

For sheer newsworthiness, Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus must qualify as perhaps the most impactful documentary of the year. The film played a key role in exposing the vast athletics doping program orchestrated by the Russian government, which recently prompted the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia…

The International Olympic Committee said today that it is banning Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea following its investigations of a doping scheme. The news was met with applause by Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan, filmmakers behind the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary, Icarus, an exposé…