Dogwoof Film Distribution for Social Issue Films

Dogwoof has picked up Sundance winning documentary “Restrepo” at Cannes.
“Restrepo,” which won the documentary grand jury prize at Sundance, is directed and produced by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger.
It follows the deployment of a U.S. platoon in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley and was shot between May 2007 and July 2008.
The film will be released in 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 [...]

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 [...]

Videocracy is coming to cinemas June 4th. So get your fix of Sex and the City next week, then go and watch Sex and the Italians the week after.

http://dogwoof.com/videocracy/

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.

In Cinemas from 11th June

Synopsis:
Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada’s tar sands. H2Oil is a feature-length documentary that traces the wavering balance between the urgent need [...]

Synopsis:
Shot primarily from a helicopter, filmmaker Peter Mettler’s “Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands” offers an unparalleled view of the world’s largest industrial, capital and energy project.
Canada’s tar sands are an oil reserve the size of England. Extracting the crude oil called bitumen from underneath unspoiled wilderness requires a massive industrialized effort with [...]

In Cinemas 4th June

Synopsis:
In a videocracy the key to power is the image. In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. Like no one else he has influenced the [...]