PAULA FROEHLE
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO

Paula is a multi-faceted human being who at any given moment is some combination of producer, director, visual artist, designer, educator, and entrepreneur – and equally loves it all. CMP is the culmination of her interests and abilities, which includes corralling large groups of people and getting them to move in (almost) one direction, thanks to growing up the middle child of 9.

She loves connecting good-hearted humans with storytellers that tug at your heartstrings and trigger you toward action. And she’s proud of CMP’s 50+ member community, its $7.5mil+ funding support to over 60 award-winning documentaries. While it’s hard to pick favorites, some notables are: Crip Camp, Knock Down the House, One Child Nation, On the Record, Athlete A, The Apollo, 16 Shots, Spaceship Earth, the top grossing biopic of all time Won’t You be My Neighbor? (she has a soft spot in her heart for Mr. Rogers), and Academy-Award winning Icarus. 

STEVE COHEN
CO-FOUNDER AND BOARD CHAIR

Steve has many eclectic interests and diverse passions—some say too many! These range from politics to law to philanthropy to media, and he’s thrown himself into each of them at one time or another.  While representing whistleblowers in his law practice, he became acutely aware of how effective media can be in speaking truth to power, and his first trip to Sundance in 2010 triggered his journey from lawyer to doc film investor to co-founder of CMP with Paula in 2014.

Steve's idea of a good time is interacting with like-minded people who also love to engage, create, experiment, brainstorm, disrupt and innovate. In other words, he has realized himself fully within the CMP community.

Personally and through CMP, Steve has been involved in more than 60 documentary films projects and the impact campaigns they have spawned. He has helped raise over $7.5M dollars for them. His screen credits include more than two dozen documentaries, including Oscar- and Emmy award-winners, and he has no intention of stopping anytime soon.