Cogent/Benger Productions Inc. began producing high-profile network documentaries and specials in 1998. The company has a reputation for producing films for a wide public that explore major social issues. The founders, and Robin Benger and Christopher Sumpton, previously had several decades of producing, directing or editing award-winning documentaries. Over the span of their careers, Cogent/Benger’s principals were nominated for thirty major documentary awards and were awarded sixteen. The company ended production in 2018.
From their site
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Who works there
- Robin Bengeris a producer/director/writer/narrator of te
- Matthew Campeais a director, editor, and writer
Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.
Contact & details
How their work is rated
- Mostly
- documentary
- Active
- 2008–2016
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 4 of 4 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Credits4
1 film
I, Pedophile
2016 · Film
Produced
- 2015
The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
2015
Produced
- 2011
The Autism Enigma
2011
Produced
- 2008
Pharma Sutra
2008
Produced
4 titles across 9 years, averaging 0.4 a year. The last five years hold at 0.0 a year. 5 of those 9 years carry no credit on file.
Who they work with
- Robin Benger2
- Marion Gruner2
- Robin Benger3
- Marion Gruner2
- Documentary4 of 4
Names appearing on two or more of Cogent/Benger Productions’s produced titles, across the 4 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
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