Jenny Raskin (USA)
Executive Director
Impact Partners

Jenny is the Executive Director of Impact Partners, an equity funding body dedicated to supporting independent documentary storytelling that entertains audiences, engages with pressing social issues, and propels the art of cinema forward.

Since 2007, Impact’s films have premiered at the top film festivals in the world – Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Berlin – and received the film industry’s highest honours and awards – Academy Awards, Emmys, Peabody Awards.

Recently, Impact Partners have introduced a unique model of equity investment into the documentary film community – pioneering a system where filmmakers and investors work together to achieve mutually beneficial goals of telling powerful stories, raising awareness about critical issues facing our world today, reaching mass audiences on a global scale, and creating revenue for our films. By bringing together filmmakers and investors who are passionate about their work, Impact Partners has forged a sustainable fund that is committed to supporting documentary filmmakers in particular and the documentary industry at large.