Biography

Steve is a Chicago-based attorney who is nationally recognized for his representation of whistle-blowers. Since 2001, Steve's law firm, Cohen Law Group, has been representing private citizen whistleblowers who uncover fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer-funded programs. He has prosecuted dozens of cases of fraud involving health care, government contracting, and federally insured financial institutions that have returned more than a half-billion dollars to state and federally funded programs.

Since 2009, Steve has broadened his involvement with impact documentaries and media. Prior to co-founding Chicago Media Project, Steve helped finance dozens of award-winning documentaries as a member of Impact Partners, including 'Hell and Back Again', 'The Island President', 'How to Survive A Plague', 'Inequality For All.' As a co-founder of CMP and co-manager of the CMP Invest/Impact Fund, Steve has overseen more than 2 million dollars of grant and equity funding for numerous documentaries including, 'Notes on Blindness', 'The Eagle Huntress' and 'Audrie & Daisy' and most recently, 'Trophy', 'Icarus', 'Dina' and 'Step'.

Steve is also a member of the Gamechanger film fund, whose mission is to finance and produce women-directed feature films. Gamechanger financed films include 'Land Ho!', 'The Invitation', 'Fresno' and 'Lovesong', which premiered at Sundance 2016.

Steve also serves on the boards of a several academic and non-profit organizations, including Beloit College, Saybrook University, TCS Educational System and the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
- IMDb mini biography by: Steven H. Cohen

A producer, investor, philanthropist and attorney, Steve is the Co-Founder and Board Chair of Chicago Media Project (CMP), the innovative multifaceted philanthropic community of documentary film lovers who believe in the power of media to bring about social change. He is also the Co-Manager of Chicago Media Project Invest/Impact (CMP I/I), the equity fund side of CMP that invests recoupable equity in commercially viable documentaries.

Steve has overseen more than $4.5 million dollars of grant and equity funding for numerous documentaries including the Sundance 2019 hits KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (Netflix) and ONE CHILD NATION (Amazon) as well as the top-grossing biopic of all time WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? (Focus Features), THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED (Tribeca 2018), THE FOURTH ESTATE (Showtime) and STEP (Fox Searchlight), to name a few. He served as an executive producer on THE INFILTRATORS (Sundance 2019) and 306 HOLLYWOOD (Sundance 2018). Steve co-produced BLUE WALL, TROPHY (CNN Films), VOYEUR (Netflix) and the 2017 Academy Award-winning documentary ICARUS.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chicago Media Project