Draft:Annie Roney

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

Career
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.

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

In 2009, Roney was the Co-founder of The Oprah Winfrey Network Documentary Film Club 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.'"

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.

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

Awards

 * Career Achievement Award, Women's International Film Festival
 * Inspiration Award, Sheffield Documentary Festival

Filmography

 * 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