Annie Roney is the founder and CEO of ROCO Films, a documentary distribution and production company.
Annie Roney is the founder and CEO of ROCO Films, a documentary distribution and production company. She is co-founder of Film Platform, a global subscription streaming service for colleges and universities allowing students and faculty to actively use documentaries in the classroom and for research.
In 2013, Annie screened the documentary Particle Fever and discovered for the first time the joy of “doing physics”. The documentary proves what she loves most about the genre: the personal experience of discovery and insight through other people’s stories. She is now producing Particle Fever the Musical with Megan Kingery, book by David Henry Hwang, music by Bear McCreary and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak.
Since founding ROCO Films in 2000, ROCO has distributed and/or Executive Produced award-winning documentaries with 18 consecutive years receiving an Oscar nomination. Films include Born Into Brothels, Hoop Dreams, Jesus Camp, The Weather Underground, Promises, Street Fight, How to Survive a Plague, Particle Fever, Inequality for All, The Hunting Ground, RBG, Q: Into the Storm, Dolores, Deep Rising, and Common Ground.