Impact Partners headed by Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous, the executive producer of the 2004 Oscar-winning documentary, Born Into Brothels. Impact Partners is a film fund for investors and philanthropists who seek to promote social change through film. Since its inception less than three years ago, Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 25 films, including The Cove, which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; Freeheld, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film; The Garden, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. www.impactpartnersfilm.com
In a world that is increasingly interrelated, The Compton Foundation seeks to foster human and ecological security by addressing contemporary threats to these inalienable rights.
www.comptonfoundation.org
The Fledgling Fund seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects that target entrenched social problems. www.thefledglingfund.org
Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film. www.chickeneggpics.org
The 11th Hour Project promotes a fuller understanding of the impact of human activity within the web of interdependent living systems by helping organizations develop more responsible relationships with the world’s water, energy, and food resources. hwww.11thhourproject.org/
