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Geralyn White Dreyfous has a wide, distinguished background in the arts, extensive experience in consulting in the philanthropic sector, and participates on numerous boards and initiatives. She is the Founder and Board Chair of the Utah Film Center, a non-profit that curates free screenings and outreach programs for communities throughout Utah.
In 2007, she co-founded Impact Partners Film Fund with Dan Cogan, bringing together financiers and filmmakers so that they can create great films that entertain audiences, enrich lives, and ignite social change. Since its inception, IP has been involved in the financing of over 70 films. In 2013, Dreyfous became a founding member of Gamechanger, the first for-profit film fund dedicated exclusively to financing narrative features directed by women.
Dreyfous's independent executive producing and producing credits include the Academy Award winning Born Into Brothels; Emmy nominated The Day My God Died, Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning The Square, Academy Award nominated and Peabody Award winning The Invisible War, and multiple film festival winners such as Miss Representation, Meet the Patels, Anita, In Football We Trust, The Hunting Ground, Dreamcatcher and Alive Inside.
Her works in production include: Wait for Me and Be Natural. The International Documentary Association honored Dreyfous with the Amicus Award in 2013 for her significant contribution to documentary filmmaking, and Variety recognized her in their 2014 Women’s Impact Report highlighting her work in the entertainment industry.
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