Geralyn Dreyfous

Geralyn White Dreyfous is an American film producer. She has produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including The Invisible War (2012), The Square (2013), The Hunting Ground (2015), Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018), The Great Hack (2019), and On the Record (2020). Dreyfous has been nominated for Primetime Emmy awards.

Geralyn White Dreyfous
Occupation	Film producer

Early life

Dreyfous Grew up in Groveland, Massachusetts.^[1] Early in her career, she worked at The Philanthropic Initiative in Boston. She taught Documentary and Narrative writing with Dr. Robert Coles at Harvard University.^[2]

Career

Dreyfous is the chair and co-founder of the Utah Film Center, which provides funding to filmmakers.^[3][4] In 2007, Dreyfous co-founded Impact Partners, a documentary production company alongside Dan Cogan.^[5][6] In 2013, Dreyfous co-founded Gamechanger Films, a production company which only finances films directed by women.^[7]

Dreyfous has produced multiple films which have gone on to receive Academy Award and Emmy Award nominations.^[8] Including Born into Brothels (2005) directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.^[9] The Invisible War (2012), directed by Kirby Dick,^[10] The Square (2013) directed by Jehane Noujaim,^[11] and The Hunting Ground (2015) directed by Kirby Dick.^[12]

Dreyfous has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy awards for producing Brave Miss World (2013), directed by Cecilia Peck,^[13] and The Great Hack (2019), directed by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer.^[14]

In 2013, Dreyfous was honored by the International Documentary Association with the Amicus Award.^[15] Additionally, Dreyfous was honored by Variety for the 2014 Women’s Impact Report.^[16]

In 2020, Dreyfous produced 76 Days directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous, revolving around the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film won a Peabody Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.^[17][18][19] In 2021, Dreyfous was nominated for a Peabody Award as one of the executive producers of the docuseries Nuclear Family.^[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
2003	The Day My God Died	executive producer
2004	Born into Brothels	executive producer
2008	Kick Like a Girl	co-producer
	In a Dream	executive producer
	The Dhamma Brothers	executive producer
	Waiting for Hockney	executive producer
	Project Kashmir	executive producer
	Living in Emergency	executive producer
	Paints on a Ceiling	executive producer
2009	Sergio	co-executive producer
2010	Lead with Love	executive producer
2011	Miss Representation	executive producer
	Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death and Technology	executive producer
	Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt	executive producer
2012	The Invisible War	executive producer
	Sugar Babies: Two Epidemics of Diabetes in Our Children	executive producer
2013	Open Heart	executive producer
	The Square	executive producer
	The Crash Reel	executive producer
	Anita: Speaking Truth to Power	executive producer
	Brave Miss World	executive producer
	China in Three Words	executive producer
	Wrenched	executive producer
2014	Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory	executive producer
	Land Ho!	executive producer
	Vessel	executive producer
	Meet the Patels	executive producer
	Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank	executive producer
	Unbreakable	executive producer
	Crescendo! The Power of Music	executive producer
2015	In Football We Trust	executive producer
	The Hunting Ground	executive producer
	Hot Girls Wanted	executive producer
	Dreamcatcher	executive producer
	The Mask You Live In	executive producer
	Prophet's Prey	executive producer
	The Invitation	executive producer
	Addicted to Fresno	executive producer
	The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano	executive producer
	Song of Lahore	executive producer
	All Eyes and Ears	executive producer
	Dogtown Redemption	executive producer
	The Millennials	executive producer
2016	Lovesong	executive producer
	Obit	executive producer
	Money Monster	associate producer
	Franca: Chaos and Creation	executive producer
	Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War	executive producer
	The Journey is the Destination	executive producer
	Buster's Mal Heart	executive producer
	City of Joy	executive producer
	Swift Current	executive producer
	Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation	executive producer
2017	Step	executive producer
	Bending the Arc	executive producer
	I Am Jane Doe	executive producer
	Embargo	executive producer
	The Strange Ones	executive producer
	The Last Animals	executive producer
	Eating Animals	executive producer
	Hunting Season	executive producer
	The Rape of Recy Taylor	executive producer
	The Judge	executive producer
	Open Shadow: The Story of Teal Swan	executive producer
	Of Fathers and Sons	executive producer
	Voyeur	executive producer
	The World is My Country	executive producer
	Undiagnosed	executive producer
2018	Generation Wealth	executive producer
	Our New President	executive producer
	Won't You Be My Neighbor?	executive producer
	The Tale	executive producer
	Nancy	co-executive producer
	Bisbee '17	executive producer
	The Long Dumb Road	executive producer
	The Feeling of Being Watched	executive producer
	The Way Madness Lies..	executive producer
	Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché	Executive producer
	Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes	executive producer
	Wrestling Ghosts	executive producer
	Still Plays with Trains	executive producer
	Cracked Up	executive producer
	Bleed Out	executive producer
2019	Where We Disappear	executive producer
	Always in Season	executive producer
	The Great Hack	executive producer
	Fantastic Fungi	executive producer
	16 Shots	executive producer
	Cooked: Survival by Zip Code	executive producer
	The Kingmaker	executive producer
2020	Persuasion Machine	executive producer
	Aggie	executive producer
	Us Kids	executive producer
	On the Record	executive producer
	Spaceship Earth	executive producer
	Assassins	executive producer
	Giving Voice	executive producer
	The Truffle Hunters	executive producer
	Jacinta	executive producer
	#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump	co-executive producer
	Love & Stuff	executive producer
	Belly of the Beast	executive producer
	The Genetics of Hope	executive producer
	76 Days	executive producer
	Driving While Black: Race, Space, and Mobility in America	executive producer
	Francesco	executive producer
	The Life Ahead	executive producer
	A Crime on the Bayou	executive producer
	Television Event	executive producer
2021	What Would Sophia Loren Do?	executive producer
	Bring Your Own Brigade	executive producer
	Rebel Hearts	co-executive producer
	Try Harder!	executive producer
	Cusp	co-executive producer
	Ailey	executive producer
	Dear Mr. Brody	executive producer
	When Claude Got Shot	executive producer
	Pray Away	co-executive producer
	Paper & Glue	executive producer
	Citizen Ashe	executive producer
	Procession	executive producer
	You Resemble Me	executive producer
	Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over	executive producer
2022	32 Sounds	executive producer
	Mija	executive producer
	Aftershock	executive producer
	To the End	executive producer
	Still Working 9 to 5	executive producer
	The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile	executive producer
	Into the Weeds	executive producer
	Make People Better	executive producer
	My Name is Andrea	executive producer
	Of Medicine and Miracles	executive producer
	Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy	executive producer
	Merkel	executive producer
	Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom	executive producer
	The Grab	executive producer
	What Comes Around	executive producer
2023	Beyond Utopia	co-executive producer
	Going Varsity in Mariachi	executive producer
	Food and Country	executive producer
	The Right to Read	executive producer
	Another Body	executive producer
	Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and Ibogaine	executive producer
	Hollywoodgate	co-executive producer
	Gonzo Girl	executive producer
	Defiant	executive producer
	Invisible Nation	executive producer
2024	Gaucho Gaucho	executive producer
	Sugarcane	executive producer
	Union	executive producer
	Admissions Granted	executive producer
	Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It	executive producer
	Songs from the Hole	executive producer
	A King Like Me	executive producer
	Fly	executive producer
	Love to the Max	executive producer
	The Bitter Pill	executive producer
	Antidote	executive producer
	Searching for Amani	executive producer
	The Pool	executive producer
	Paint Me a Road Out of Here	executive producer
	Satisfied	executive producer
	Mrs. Robinson	executive producer
	Mistress Dispeller	executive producer

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2004-2020	Independent Lens	8 episodes; executive producer
2020-2022	The Vow	executive producer
2021	Allen v. Farrow	executive producer
2021	Nuclear Family	executive producer
2022	Phoenix Rising	executive producer
2022	The Lincoln Project	executive producer
2024	Dante: Inferno to Paradise	executive producer

See also

• Biography portal

• List of Academy Award records

References

1. "Women inspire women at the annual WOW conference," North Andover Eagle Tribune, April 13, 2019
2. Dreyfous's IMDB bio
3. "Sundance helps pave the way for women in film," KUTV, Jan. 30, 2019
4. "Meet Utah’s 15 most influential artists, chosen by more than 150 experts and fans," The Salt Lake Tribune, January 6, 2019
5. "Geralyn White Dreyfous". CGA Alumni. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
6. "Oscar-Winning Documentary Backer Now Taking Pitches to Develop and Fund New Non-Fiction Work," IndieWire, November 13, 2018
7. "Gamechanger Films". Gamechanger Films. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
8. "WOW Conference to feature five inspiring women," North Andover Eagle Tribune, April 4, 2019
9. Block, Melissa (February 28, 2005). "Documentarian Briski Discusses Oscar Win". NPR. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
10. Goodavage, Maria (January 10, 2013). "The Invisible War Nominated for Oscar". PBS. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
11. "Boston's Jehane Noujaim's 'The Square' Grabs Oscar Nomination". The Boston Herald. January 20, 2014. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
12. Weist, Ellen (January 23, 2015). "Sundance: Producer Geralyn Dreyfous: 'Come out and tell your stories'". The Salt Lake City Tribune. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
13. "Brave Miss World". The Emmys. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
14. "The Great Hack". The Emmys. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
15. "Utah's Geralyn Dreyfous earns 'rare' honor for film work," The Salt Lake Tribune, Dec. 6, 2013
16. "WOW Conference to feature five inspiring women," North Andover Eagle Tribune, April 4, 2019
17. "76 Days". Peabody Awards. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
18. Morgan, Jillian (June 22, 2021). "Peabodys day two: "76 Days," "Losing Ground" pick up awards". Real Screen. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
19. Andreeva, Nellie (September 12, 2021). "MTV Documentary Films & Pluto TV Land First Emmy Win For '76 Days'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
20. "82nd Annual Peabody Nominees Announced". Peabody Awards. April 13, 2022. Retrieved August 20, 2023.

External links

• Biography for Geralyn Dreyfous at IMDb