Kristin Cooney Vice-President and Co-Founder, Roco Films

As Vice President and Co-Founder of ROCO’s Impact and Engagement division, Kristin Cooney and her team are responsible for executing bespoke screening campaigns to achieve targeted impact goals. Before starting ROCO’s Impact division, Kristin helped to launch ROCO’s Educational Distribution division, where she served as managing director for nine years, growing the educational catalogue from 1 film to several hundred and bringing educational rights to the forefront of the distribution conversation. In her current role, Kristin continues to prioritize educational rights, ensuring that impact and engagement efforts lead to robust and long-term educational outcomes and revenue. Kristin has executed impact campaigns and/or managed educational rights for over 200 films, including Picture a Scientist, The Invisible War, Chasing Ice, The Hunting Ground, Inequality for All, Kiss The Ground, The Right To Read, Chasing Childhood, Girl Rising, Miss Representation, Trapped, Life, Animated, Cartel Land, This Changes Everything, Particle Fever, A Place At the Table and Pray the Devil Back to Hell.