Dogwoof / London
True stories
As founders of film distributor Dogwoof, Anna Godas and Andy Whittaker transformed what audiences expect from documentaries. With a keen eye for factual thrills, they’ve now turned to production to seek out the next real-life drama.
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Anna Godas and Andy Whittaker are behind-the-scenes titans of the documentary world. After meeting at the Cannes film festival, the duo founded Dogwoof in 2004. At the time Whittaker, from the UK, was working on developing digital strategies for companies such as Ebay and Barclays, while Spaniard Godas was straight out of university. In the past decade Dogwoof has been the UK distributor and international sales agent for every hit doc under the sun, from killer-whale thriller Blackfish to Indonesian genocide horror The Look of Silence and fashion…