Geralyn Dreyfous has a wide background in the arts and philanthropy. She founded the Philanthropic Initiative in Boston, which guides families of wealth in strategic giving opportunities, and co-taught documentary writing at Harvard University. Geralyn is also the founder/ board chair of the Utah Film Center and a charter member of the Utah Coalition for Film and Media.
In 2007, Geralyn co-founded Impact Partners Film Fund with Dan Cogan. Impact Partners (IP) brings together financiers and filmmakers so that, together, they can create great films that entertain audiences, enrich lives, and ignite social change. Since its inception more than four years ago, IP has been involved in the financing of over 25 films, including: The Cove, which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; The Garden, which was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature;Freeheld, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film; and The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which won the 2007 Emmy Award for Best Documentary Special.
Geralyn’s executive producing and producing credits include Academy Award-winning Born into Brothels; Emmy-nominated The Day My God Died; and multiple film-festival winners, such as Kick Like a Girl, In a Dream, Dhamma Brothers, Project Kashmir, Miss Representation, and Connected. Her works in production include: Wait for Me, Year of the Ambassador, One in a Billion, In Football We Trust, and Sugar Babies.