Dogwoof Film Distribution for Social Issue Films

When Hugo Chavez met Oliver Stone, as the recent BBC and Financial Times articles describe it.
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it.
Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of [...]

No Impact Man. – UK Release date September 2010

Synopsis:
No Impact Man – Saving the world, one family at a time.
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year.
It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the refrigerator. It also means no elevators, no television, no [...]

“Restrepo”, which won the documentary grand jury prize at Sundance, is directed and produced by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger.
One platoon, one valley, one year
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s year dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan’s most strategically crucial valleys reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking [...]

The Garden
Oscar Nominated Best Documentary Feature 2009
Starring
Danny Glover
Daryl Hannah
Antonio Villaraigosa
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Synopsis:
The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling the story of the USA’s largest urban farm, backroom deals, land developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord.
The film explores and exposes the fault lines in American [...]

The Most Dangerous Man in America
Oscar Nominated Best documentary Feature 2010
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a top military strategist working for the RAND Corporation, leaked a 7,000-page document known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Disenchanted with the nation’s conduct in Vietnam, Ellsberg believed the release of the top secret paper–which outlined the [...]

Dogwoof has nabbed U.K. rights to Lucy Walker’s “Countdown to Zero.”
The film, which received critical acclaim earlier this year at Sundance before it had its international premiere at Cannes in May, where it screened in Official Selection.
British director Lucy Walker, whose past pics include “Waste Land” and “Blindsight,” penned and directed the doc, which was [...]

Synopsis:

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead [...]

The Shock Doctrine
An investigation of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
DVD Features:
* Cinema Trailer
* Sundance Film Festival 2010 Q&A
Duration:: 82 mins
Certificate:: E
Director:: Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom
Cast:: Various
Country:: USA
Genre:: Documentary

Synopsis:
Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to Burma’s video journalists who insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail.
”Joshua”, age 27, is one of the young video journalists. With [...]

Premiered on World Oceans Day – Monday 8th June, simultaneously on 46 screens across the U.K.
Synopsis:
The End of the Line, the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Sundance took place in Park City, [...]