Hot on the heels of its Oscar nomination we were delighted to welcome director Robbie Kenner and writer Eric Schlosser to the premiere and Q&A at the Curzon Mayfair.

Thandie Newton, Robbie Kenner, and Stella McCartney

A special thanks too from all at Dogwoof to Stella McCartney who helped support the premiere and for throwing open the doors of her Mayfair store for the afterparty – a good time was had by all!!

Look at the list of participating cinemas. Click on a cinema to go through to the booking page where you can buy your tickets now.

There will be a special day of one-off nationwide screenings on Monday 15th February, many of which will be accompanied by Q&As. This will be the only chance to see this compelling film in some parts of the country so please lend your support on the 15th.

Monday 15th

Aberdeen - Belmont Picturehouse
Bath - Little Theatre Cinema
Birmingham - Vue
Bristol - Vue Longwell Green
Camberley - Vue
Cambridge - Vue
Cheshire - Vue Cheshire Oaks
Dublin - Vue
Dundee - Dundee Contemporary Arts
Edinburgh - Filmhouse
Edinburgh - Vue Omni
Exeter - Picturehouse
Inverness - Eden Court
Inverness - Vue
Leeds - Vue Leeds Light
Liverpool - Picturehouse at FACT
London - Brixton Ritzy Picturehouse
London - Clapham Picturehouse
London - Everyman Hampstead
London - Greenwich Picturehouse
London - Lexi Cinema
London - Odeon Panton Street
London - Vue Acton
London - Vue Finchley Road
London - Vue Fulham
London - Vue Harrow
London - Vue Islington
London - Vue Westfield
Norwich - Vue
Oxford - Vue
Plymouth - Vue
Reading - Vue
Stamford - Stamford Arts Centre
York - Vue

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 of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Director: Robert Kenner
Starring: Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser
Running Time: 94 mins
Country: U.S.A.
Website: Food Inc UK Movie Website

Food Inc UK Movie Website

Find out more now.

Film Information:
Original title: La teta asustada
Country: Spain, Peru
Year: 2008
Director: Claudia Llosa
Running time: 94 mins

Yes. Poor standards of farm animal welfare combined with over-reliance on antibiotics; pressure from government to adopt GM technologies; routine pesticide use polluting our land and water supplies; major corporations controlling our food systems – these are all features of our very own British food system.

Learn about these issues and then check out the 10 Simple Ways you can make a positive change.

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Working with The Soil Association

Burma VJ – Best Documentary (Feature)

Food, Inc. – Best Documentary (Feature)

The Milk of Sorrow – Best Foreign Language Film

We’re very, very proud to work with such great filmmakers. Best of luck.

Full List of Nominees

Actor in a Leading Role

• Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
• George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
• Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
• Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
• Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Matt Damon in “Invictus”
• Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
• Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
• Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
• Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Actress in a Leading Role

• Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
• Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
• Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
• Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
• Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
• Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
• Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
• Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Animated Feature Film

• “Coraline” Henry Selick
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
• “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements
• “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
• “Up” Pete Docter

Art Direction

• “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
• “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
• “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Cinematography

• “Avatar” Mauro Fiore
• “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel
• “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd
• “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson
• “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger

Costume Design

• “Bright Star” Janet Patterson
• “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
• “Nine” Colleen Atwood
• “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Directing

• “Avatar” James Cameron
• “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
• “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
• “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman

Documentary (Feature)

• “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
• “The Cove” Nominees to be determined
• “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
• “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
• “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa

Documentary (Short Subject)

• “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
• “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
• “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
• “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Film Editing

• “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
• “District 9” Julian Clarke
• “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
• “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz

Foreign Language Film

• “Ajami” Israel
• “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina
• “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru
• “Un Prophète” France
• “The White Ribbon” Germany

Makeup

• “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
• “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
• “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Music (Original Score)

• “Avatar” James Horner
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
• “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
• “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
• “Up” Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song)

• “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
• “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
• “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
• “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
• “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best Picture

• “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
• “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
• “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
• “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
• “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
• “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
• “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
• “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
• “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Short Film (Animated)

• “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
• “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
• “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
• “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
• “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park

Short Film (Live Action)

• “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
• “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
• “Kavi” Gregg Helvey
• “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
• “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Sound Editing

• “Avatar” Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
• “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
• “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman
• “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
• “Up” Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Sound Mixing

• “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
• “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
• “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
• “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
• “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Visual Effects

• “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
• “District 9” Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
• “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• “District 9” Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• “An Education” Screenplay by Nick Hornby
• “In the Loop” Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
• “Up in the Air” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Writing (Original Screenplay)

• “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
• “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino
• “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
• “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
• “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Watch the film, then take action. We will be enhancing this section over the next few months.

Dogwoof believes that a good film can make a big difference in how people see the world and social issues.

Dogwoof is now a social enterprise.
Social enterprises are social mission driven companies which apply market-based strategies to achieve a social purpose.
Our aim is to to accomplish targets that are social as well as financial – often referred to as the triple bottom line.
Many commercial businesses would consider themselves to have social objectives, but Dogwoof as a social enterprise is distinctive because our social purpose remains central to our operation.

As a social enterprise our main aim is to generate profit to further our social and or environmental goals, in particular to acquire and release more social issues based feature films and documentaries. In addition to this, Dogwoof will constantly improve it’s Ethical business practises.

Today, we are the leading UK film distributor specialising in social issue films: documentaries; independent films and world cinema.
We release our films nationwide, backing the release with major campaigns.

The aim of this approach is to trigger change, and get people to take action. And the best way to do this, is by making the film available at cinemas and venues around the country, as shown by our record breaking release of The Age of Stupid and The End of the Line, Black Gold, Burma VJ, and kicking off next year with Food Inc.

We are also contantly trying new technologies, and social media, which offer endless opportunities for independent distribution. Dogwoof has the freedom and the will to exploit them.

The company intends to build on the success of the last six years and its vision is to develop, expand and, above all, innovate.

Our approach – Simple – Transparent – Innovative

Other examples of successful Social Enterprises are Divine Chocolate, and Cafedirect. And we aim to do the same with film.

Dogwoof, Good with Film.

Recent Campaigns:

• Burma VJ – Be a VJ
• The Age of Stupid
• Vanishing of the Bees – Save the Honey Bee
• End of the Line – Seafood watch
• Black Gold – Think before you drink
• Age of Stupid – 10:10 UK campaign
• The Yes Men Fix the World – Challenge the Yes Men

Film Websites:

• Vanishing of the Bees
• Food Inc UK
• The End of the Line
• The Age of Stupid
• Burma VJ
• Black Gold

Dogwoof Good with Film:

• Dogwoof Good with Film

Film for Good – FilmforGood is coming soon

Evocative, visually stunning, and utterly unforgettable, Disarm spans a dozen countries to look at how, despite a global ban, millions of anti-personnel mines continue to claim victims daily in over 80 countries.

Co-directed by Mary Wareham, a leader of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Brian Liu, with an original score by Brendan Canty of Fugazi, Disarm features harrowing footage smuggled out of the isolated nation of Burma, scenes from minefields in Iraq and Colombia and exclusive scenes shot by Afghan de-miners.

Film Information

Release Date: 6th April 2009

Directors: Brian Liu, Mary Wareham

Running Time: 110 mins

Country: USA

Awards: Best Global Insight Film at 2006 Jackson Hole Film Festival, Achievement Award at 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival.

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 cars, busses, or airplanes, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity, no material consumption, and no garbage.

No problem – at least for Colin – but he and his family live in Manhattan. So when his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two-year-old daughter are dragged into the fray, the No Impact Project has an unforeseen impact of its own.

Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s film provides an intriguing inside look into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, while examining the familial strains and strengthened bonds that result from Colin and Michelle’s struggle with their radical lifestyle change.

Film Information

Directors: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein

Starring: Colin Beavan, Michelle Conlin

Running Time: 93 mins

Country: U.S.A.

Website: No Impact Man UK Movie Website

No Impact Man UK Film website

No Impact Man UK Film website