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Annie Roney is the CEO and Founder of a Global Media Company

Career

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Roney is the Founder and CEO of ROCO Films, a global documentary distribution company located in Sausalito, CA, as well as a producer and executive producer on various documentary films..

Through her work at ROCO Films, which opened its doors in 2000, she has distributed over 300 documentaries, 17 of them have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, including award-winning titles like, Born into Brothels, Hoop Dreams and An Inconvenient Sequel. She often participates on panels and blogs for the Sundance Institute about documentary distribution.[1]

She began her career working for CS Associates in Mill Valley, CA, a company that managed international distribution for documentaries including PBS's Frontline and Nova films, as well as independent films like Dark Circle and The Day After Trinity[2]

In 2009, Roney was the Co-founder of The Oprah Winfrey Network Documentary Film Club[3] which excited the documentary film community with the promise of cinematic documentaries being promoted on the network as well as some chosen for national theatrical release. In 2012, the partnership ended with Roney citing "different visions for the potential of the 'Documentary Club.'"[4]

Roney is the co-founder of Film Platform, an EVOD platform for documentaries used by over 2,000 North American universities through its partnership with ProQuest/Clarivate[5].

Roney is producing a Broadway musical based on the documentary titled Particle Fever, which follows scientists as they search for Higgs Boson at CERN.[6][7]

Awards

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Filmography

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  • Executive Producer, Deep Rising, 2023
  • Executive Producer, Common Ground, 2023
  • Co-Producer, Q: Into the Storm, 2021
  • Co-Executive Producer, Running with Beto, 2019
  • Executive Producer, I am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi, 2018

References

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  1. ^ "Q&A: Annie Roney of Ro*co Films on Adapting to Changes in Distribution - sundance.org". 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  2. ^ Jones Neff, Kirsten (22 September 2017). "Annie Roney". Marin Magazine. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  3. ^ "OWN Partnering with Ro*Co Films International". Oprah.com. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  4. ^ "Ro*co no longer curating docs for OWN's 'Doc Club'". Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  5. ^ "Harnessing the Power of Documentaries to Expand Libraries' Reach and Impact, and Drive Progress". Choice 360. 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  6. ^ "Particle Fever the Musical | International Documentary Association". www.documentary.org. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  7. ^ Overbye, Dennis (2024-08-05). "Can the Higgs Boson Shine on Broadway?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-12.