MDAG Industry Guest
Acquisitions Executive at Dogwoof
Dogwoof is a London-based documentary film company integrating production, sales, and theatrical distribution. Dogwoof has so far released 34 Oscar-nominated documentaries, with six wins and an additional five BAFTA winners; notable titles include 2024 Oscar-winning and BAFTA-winning 20 Days In Mariupol, 2023 Oscar-winning and BAFTA-winning Navalny, Oscar-winning and BAFTA-winning Free Solo, BAFTA-nominated Apollo 11, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated Fire of Love and All That Breathes, BAFTA-winning The Act of Killing, and Blackfish. Dogwoof is increasingly ramping up its production activities; titles it has financed and produced include: Every Little Thing (Sundance 2024), McEnroe (Tribeca 2022, Showtime and NBC Universal), The Lost Leonardo (Tribeca 2021, Sony Pictures Classics), Citizen Ashe (Telluride 2021, CNN / HBO Max) and Playing with Sharks (Sundance 2021, National Geographic). Recent titles include 2024 Academy Award nominees The Eternal Memory by Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi, Sundance-winner 20 Days in Mariupol by Mystyslav Chernov, Bobi Wine: The People's President by Moses Bwayo and Christoper Sharp, in addition to the BAFTA-nominated Beyond Utopia by Madeleine Gavin. Dogwoof started 2024 with four World Premieres at Sundance Film Festival, including three in World Cinema Competition; Nocturnes by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan which won the Special Jury Prize for Craft; Black Box Diaries from best-selling journalist and author Shiori Ito; Eternal You by Hans Block and Moritz Rieswieck, and Dogwoof co-production Every Little Thing by Sally Aitken (Playing With Sharks),which competed in the US Documentary category.
