Dogwoof is a London-based documentary film company that integrates production, sales, and theatrical distribution. To date, Dogwoof's titles amount to 37 Oscar-nominated documentaries, including seven winners, alongside five BAFTA-winning films. Notable titles include 2025's Oscar-winning No Other Land, 2024 Oscar-and BAFTA-winning 20 Days in Mariupol, the 2023 Oscar-and BAFTA-winning Navalny, the Oscar-and BAFTA-winning Free Solo, the BAFTA-nominated Apollo 11, and the Oscar-and BAFTA-nominated Fire of Love and All That Breathes. Other highlights include the BAFTA-winning The Act of Killing and Blackfish.

Recent Dogwoof's productions include Every Little Thing (Sundance 2024), McEnroe (Showtime and NBC Universal), The Lost Leonardo (Sony Pictures Classics), Citizen Ashe (Telluride 2021), Copa 71 (TIFF 2023), and Playing with Sharks (Sundance 2021, National Geographic).

Other recent titles include Oscar and BAFTA-nominated documentary feature films such as Black Box Diaries (sold to MTV Documentary Films) plus the Oscar-nominated Sugarcane. Dogwoof starts 2025 with the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition title Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, World Cinema Documentary Competition-selected 2000 Meters to Andriivka, directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov (20 Days in Mariupol) and One to One: John & Yoko from Oscar-winning filmmaker, Kevin Macdonald.

Anna Godas

CEO

Anna is Dogwoof’s CEO. She has steered the company from a small UK indie film distributor to a leading global brand in the field of documentary. Anna was directly responsible for the creation of Dogwoof's international sales arm, as well as the creation of Dogwoof's fund T-Dog Productions. Anna is now focusing on growing Dogwoof's production and development side, focusing on feature docs, doc series, remake rights, podcast and shorter content. Her mission is to create a fully integrated true stories mini-studio. Anna was born in Barcelona, Spain. She has an Executive MBA, and MAs in film production and screenwriting, and has two daughters who she is proud to be a strong role model for.

Oli Harbottle

Chief Content Officer

Oli Harbottle has been at Dogwoof since 2006, and was part of the original team who made the decision to specialise in documentaries the following year. As Chief Content Officer, he is responsible for acquisitions across the company's slate as well as the sourcing of projects for production. He also continues to oversee the company's releasing slate, with a focus on talent relationships and strategic company partnerships. Oli was born in London.

Nirav Patel

Chief Financial Officer

Nirav is Dogwoof’s numbers guru; he joined the Company in 2011 after leaving over 15 years of Practice to get commercial experience. He maintains the day to day accounting records and looks after all the financial reporting requirements of the Company. Nirav was born in London.

Nico Wasserman

Senior Development Producer

Nico is a development producer specialising in feature documentaries and series. He has 20 years experience across unscripted productions, having started his career as a researcher on the BBC’s longrunning Arena strand, and has been a director, showrunner and executive producer at companies including BBC Studios, Sony Music, Pulse Films and Steve McQueen’s Lammas Park. A lifelong Londoner, he was born in Hammersmith and still carries around a battered A-Z.

Helena Feltham

People Director

Helena currently holds non-executive roles with Dogwoof; Ted Baker plc, where she is senior independent director and chair of the nomination committee; and The Retail Trust. She has previously held executive roles at B&Q PLC and was People Director at Jack Wills, Woolworths South Africa and Marks and Spencer. She also spent time in executive search with Odgers Berndtson, covering senior appointments across both public and private sectors. She has served as a non-executive director in the NHS, as an independent director of the Assembly of Wales and as a Justice of the Peace. Helena was born in Wolverhampton, UK.

DROO PADHIAR

HEAD OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Droo has worked in film distribution across Hollywood studio, British independent, world and specialist cinema since 2009, in both marketing and publicity at companies such as STUDIOCANAL, Verve Pictures and Peccadillo Pictures. She has worked closely with award-winning filmmakers such as Celine Sciamma, Todd Haynes, Andrew Haigh and Oliver Hermanus and worked on feature docs including The Beatles' Eight Days a Week. She joined Dogwoof in April 2019 and now oversees all marketing & comms strategy across the company's production, international sales and releasing departments. Marketing campaigns include Apollo 11, Marianne & Leonard, Fire of Love, All That Breathes, Navalny; the international sales marketing campaigns for Playing With Sharks, Black Box Diaries, My Old School; plus Dogwoof's in-house productions, Citizen Ashe, Every Little Thing, and Copa 71. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film, and was born in London.

Tom Howson

Head of Theatrical Sales

Tom joined Dogwoof in 2022 and is responsible for building relationships with cinemas across the globe. Tom’s career began in exhibition, managing venues at both Everyman and Picturehouse cinemas, before moving into international sales at The Salt Company and then distribution at Vertigo. He spent six years managing theatrical sales at Trafalgar Releasing, working on features including Oasis Knebworth 1996, They Shall Not Grow Old and Nick Cave's One More Time With Feeling, while devising release strategies for a diverse portfolio of Event Cinema with international clients including the Met Opera and Bolshoi Ballet. Tom was born in Copenhagen and brought up in London.

CLEO VEGER

HEAD OF SALES

Cleo heads up the international sales department working across all sales, presales and festivals for our production and sales titles. She joined Dogwoof in 2014 and has worked across Dogwoof's slate of films and series including Navalny, Hillary, The Kingmaker, and Oscar-nominated films Minding The Gap and The Mole Agent. Originally from The Netherlands, Cleo studied in Boston prior to making the move to London.

Will Kane

EP, Head of Legal & Business Affairs

Will is a producer, executive producer and Head of Business Affairs at Dogwoof working across development, production, sales & distribution. Prior to joining Dogwoof, Will's documentary films and series included Amazon miniseries Pistorius, about the former Olympic sprinter and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius which he wrote and produced; and BBC two-part series/film Gazza, about former England footballer Paul Gascoigne and the media mania that surrounded his troubled personal life. Will's scripted films have played at Venice, TIFF, SXSW, AFI, and LFF amongst others. Will grew up in England with a few stops along the way in Scotland, Thailand, China and more recently South Africa.

Jo Budzilowicz

Development executive

Jo Budzilowicz is a Development Executive, working closely with Dogwoof leadership to grow Dogwoof's development and production, with a focus on original development and new talent, IP and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Dogwoof, she was VP of Development at The Documentary Group in New York for over a decade and has also worked as a freelance producer on both narrative and documentary projects. Jo has a BA in Film Studies from Barnard College and was born in Chicago, IL. She is currently based in Dublin, Ireland with her husband and two boys.

KATIE BENCH

SALES MANAGER

Katie joined Dogwoof in June 2022, expanding the international sales team. She is responsible for bringing the company's growing roster of films to television and streamers around the world. Katie started in documentaries doing sales, acquisitions and production at TVF International. Katie was born in Kent, UK

Ellie Herdman

SALES EXECUTIVE

Ellie joined Dogwoof in July 2024. She joins the sales team and is responsible for TV, Airline and educational sales across a number of territories. Ellie previously worked at Espresso Media doing TV sales and Acquisitions. She has a degree in Film Studies from King's College London and was born in London.

Rachel Brown

EA / Office Manager / Sales Marketing Executive

Rachel joined Dogwoof in the spring of 2022, assisting CEO Anna Godas as well supporting Global sales marketing with creating marketing assets, and facilitating B2B communication, including running the Dogwoof Sales social media accounts. Most recently she worked across the marketing and distribution of narrative and documentary features at sales agency Independent Entertainment and previously worked within acquisitions at Universal Pictures International Entertainment. She has a degree in BSc Film Production Technology from Staffordshire University and was born in Surrey, UK.

Misia Pawlowska

DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER

Misia is a Development Producer specialising in development and international productions. After working at Passion Pictures for over three years, and accumulating eight years of experience across unscripted, scripted and entertainment genres, she joined Dogwoof in May 2023 with an objective to focus on originating global ground-breaking programming and fostering opportunities for diverse up-and-coming talent. Credits include documentaries such as Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Merkel, Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, and Rising Phoenix. Misia holds a Master of Arts degree in Filmmaking: Business and Producing and was born in Poland.

GREG TOMKINS

FINANCE MANAGER

Greg joined Dogwoof in Feb 2020 as Finance Officer having spent over 10 years working in various accounting roles within UK film distribution. Prior to that he co-managed the restoration of an independent Art Deco cinema in Hertfordshire. Greg is Dogwoof’s bookkeeper and helps Nirav to maintain the day to day accounting records. Greg was born in Watford, UK.

JAMES WEBBER

ACQUISITIONS EXECUTIVE

James joined Dogwoof in 2019 after obtaining a Masters in Screen Documentary from Goldsmith’s University, London. After a period assisting the Theatrical Sales team with various UK releases, James now oversees all project submissions, and provides administrative support and assistance for new film acquisitions. James was born in Kent, UK.

Mike Leedham

Designer

Mike has been operating his own design company, 2D Design, for a number of years and has been the Dogwoof in-house designer since 2006. Mike designs our DVD sleeves, posters, adverts, web banners, and was responsible for the Dogwoof logo. If it's Dogwoof branded, there’s a fair chance Mike designed it! Mike was born in Essen, Germany.

ELLIOT NOSWORTHY

MARKETING & COMMS CONSULTANT

Elliot joined the Dogwoof team in the Autumn of 2021, after several years working within marketing across both film distribution and the charity sector. As part of the Dogwoof marketing team, he coordinates the exhibitor and partnership strategies for all new UK releases. He holds an MA in Film Studies from Warwick University. Elliot was born in Somerset, UK.

Tilly hudson

Senior Digital Marketing Executive

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Tilly joined Dogwoof in spring 2023 after roles at Bertha DocHouse and MUBI. She oversees digital marketing across Dogwoof’s paid and organic social channels, manages marketing asset creation and copywriting, leads email campaigns, and analyses key performance metrics. With a BA in Filmmaking from Manchester School of Art and an MA in Film Programming and Curation from Birkbeck, University of London, she specialised in documentary film. She was born in Nottingham, UK.

OLIVIA DALEY

Sales Coordinator

Olivia joined Dogwoof in January 2022 as Press Assistant within the UK distribution team, assisting with press and communications across theatrical and home entertainment releases including River, Navalny and My Old School. She has since joined the International Sales department, providing sales support with all rights distributors and festivals. She holds a BA in English from UCL and was born in Sheffield, UK.

ASHA HURREE

Technical Manager

Asha is responsible for technical servicing at Dogwoof. She has over 20 years of experience in the post-production industry. During her time at Dogwoof she has worked on notable releases such as Blackfish, The Act of Killing and Navalny. She is also a keen tennis player and plays for Middlesex league. Asha was born in London.

CAMILLA TASSI

DISTRIBUTION COORDINATOR

After obtaining an MA in Film and Screen Media + Film Programming & Curating, Camilla joined Dogwoof in February 2022. She currently works on theatrical distribution for UK releases, after she spent the past few years programming film festivals and developing experience in the film industry. Camilla was born in Rome, Italy.