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), Copa 71 (TIFF 2023) and Playing with Sharks (Sundance 2021, National Geographic). Recent titles include Cannes 2024 selected Lula by Oliver Stone & Rob Wilson, Tribeca 2024 selected Made In Ethiopia, 2024 Academy Award nominees The Eternal Memory by Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi, Bobi Wine: The People's President by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp, and Sundance 2024 title Black Box Diaries, by Shiori Ito, which will be released by MTV Documentary Films in late 2024.

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 Dogwoof's production fund. 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.

ANA VICENTE

Festival &Sales Strategy Consultant

Ana joined Dogwoof in 2011 to set up and launch the international sales arm, which grew from a team of two in 2011 to a team of over seven in 2021. In 2022, she moved to a Business Development role. During her ten year period as Head of Sales, she was responsible for setting and following through the sales strategies of features, series and projects including Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song; The Mole Agent; I Am Greta; Stray; Cunningham; Maiden and Minding the Gap. Series’s include Hillary and Women Make Film. Previously, Ana worked in film distribution and TV factual distribution. She holds a BA in Audiovisual Communication and a Master PgDip in Documentary & TV Features from the University of Salford in Manchester. Ana was born in Mallorca, Spain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Debbie London-Harrington

Head of Production Management

Deborah (Debbie) London-Harrington is a senior executive leader in the global multimedia market, overseeing business development and production for National Geographic, Discovery, Al Jazeera Networks Worldwide. Extensive experience in the US, UK, Middle East and Asia Pacific with Ancestry.com and various International Indies. She returned London in 2017 after five years of living and working in Qatar where she established the department of Business Affairs and Rights Management for Al Jazeera Media Network. Under her leadership the network was able to monetise content for distribution and licensing in more than 50 markets worldwide. Debbie previously oversaw more than 150 hours of factual programming every year as Senior Vice President and acting President of National Geographic Partners at the global headquarters in Washington DC. Debbie Was born in London.

Nafi Gordon-Sy

Head of Home Entertainment

Nafi Joined Dogwoof in 2021 where as Head of Home Entertainment she oversees the physical and digital release of Dogwoof titles across all major platforms and retailers in the UK and Internationally. She also heads up D2C platform Dogwoof On Demand which recently won an industry award and is home to Dogwoof content worldwide. Nafi has worked in the entertainment industry since 2004, starting her career at MTV followed by several years at ComcastNBCU. Most recently she worked at BT TV heading up the TV Store before moving to Content Strategy. She was born in Ghana and has also lived in New York, LA , Geneva, Dakar, Lusaka and Montreal.

KATIE BENCH

SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE

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.

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 Film & TV 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 the Dogwoof team in Spring 2023 after working for several years in cinema and film streaming marketing at companies such as Bertha DocHouse and MUBI. Being part of the marketing team she will coordinate Dogwoof paid digital and organic social media channels. Prior to this she studied a BA in Filmmaking at the Manchester School of Art and an MA in Film Programming and Curation at Birkbeck University of London, specialising her academic studies 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 at Birkbeck, University of London, 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.

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.