Geralyn White Dreyfous | |
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| Occupation | Film producer |
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.
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]
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]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 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 proudcer | |
| 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 |
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 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 |
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