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Dan Cogan is one of the most prominent non-fiction producers working today. Both an Academy Award® and Emmy Award® winner, Dan founded Story Syndicate with Liz Garbus in 2019. Previously, Dan was the founding Executive Director of Impact Partners.
Dec 29, 2021 · It’s been two years since Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, two doyens of the storytelling industry, set up and launched the production company Story Syndicate. Months later, the pandemic hit.
Helmed by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, Story Syndicate is a New York-based production company that brings filmmakers together to create groundbreaking documentary content.
Oct 12, 2023 · Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan’s Story Syndicate production company is launching its own scripted film and television division, Variety has learned exclusively. The new division will be headed up by...
- “Becoming Cousteau”
- “I’ll Be Gone in The Dark”
- “Fauci”
- “Nuclear Family”
Clearly, Garbus is the company’s brand-name filmmaker. She is sent many more projects to helm than she can possibly take on. While she is maintaining her legendary workaholic standards, she’s enjoying being able to find homes for projects that she can’t direct, while still keeping her hand on the tiller. “And it stays in house,” she said. “Oftentim...
One new area for Garbus has been expanding into television. For HBO’s true crime six-episode limited series “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” based on the best-selling book by Michelle McNamara, Story Syndicate brought in three other directors to work alongside her, as well as four editors and a lead producer. “Everybody just came with the skill set,” sa...
“Fauci” came about when Story Syndicate creative head John Bardin brought up the idea of chasing down a biopic on Anthony Fauci, the high-profile National Institute of Health infectious diseases director and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, one that revealed his prior fraught battle with AIDs activists. Bardin brought in John Hoffman who...
When Story Syndicate looked at Ry Russo-Young’s video pitch for the story of her two lesbian moms and her gay dad, they wanted to help her make her first documentary feature. “The epic human drama of that story was just so extraordinary,” said Cogan. “And that was a case where we knew we could never sell that to a platform, because Ry had not made ...
Apr 11, 2022 · Story Syndicate, the production house founded by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentary powerhouse couple Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus, is bulking up its development and production team with a new hire,...
Jul 28, 2023 · Story Syndicate, backed by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, is behind true-crime docs including Last Call, Take Care of Maya and Stolen Youth.
