Dogwoof Grows Sales and Business Affairs Team

London-centered documentary professional Dogwoof has restructured its business affairs and product sales teams as it carries on to grow into production.

Former Western Edge Pictures govt Will Kane will sign up for the firm as head of company affairs, operating carefully with CEO Anna Godas and head of acquisitions and distribution Oli Harbottle to grow Dogwoof’s manufacturing and financing arms.

In the meantime, Cleo Veger has been promoted to head of income, and previous TVF Global profits and acquisitions govt Katie Bench has joined as new senior product sales government.

Veger joined in 2014 and moved to the function of profits govt in 2017, and then gross sales supervisor in 2019. She will head an expanded product sales group throughout all revenue and pre-product sales as well as festivals. Bench, who specialised in sales for Latin The united states, Iberia and Benelux at TVF, will oversee Television set sales in a quantity of territories. Both equally executives will be attending this week’s Sheffield DocFest and having meetings at MeetMarket.

Ana Vicente, who has been overseeing the gross sales team, actions into a newly developed tactic and business improvement purpose.

The restructure arrives as Dogwoof — which was customarily regarded as a documentary profits agent and distributor — seems to integrate generation, product sales, funding and distribution.

Godas stated: “At Dogwoof, we imagine in developing our in-dwelling expertise, like Cleo and Ana, mainly because our crew is simply just the critical to our success. Equally, we are aggressively escalating in the output and profits room and we will need the suitable calibre of people like Katie and Will to assistance take us to the following degree.”

Additional Veger: “I’m thrilled to get the next action as head of sales at Dogwoof as we carry on to expand and bring a slate of amazing movies and jobs to the market place. Will and Katie are a outstanding addition to our developing staff who will enable extend our attain.”

Vicente said: “I’m very pleased to have been part of the Dogwoof transformation about the final 10 many years. It has been a trip. I’m grateful to be entrusted with this new role and psyched to carry on on the path to further more build Dogwoof’s expansion.”

Dogwoof’s most up-to-date income titles include things like “The Story of Film” director Mark Cousins’ new documentary “My Identify is Alfred Hitchcock” and Alexandre O. Philippe’s “Lynch/Oz,” which planet premiered in Tribeca. Kane will cope with all legal and business affairs, having a vital role in structuring Dogwoof’s increasing variety of output and funding investments.

In the last 12 months, Dogwoof has additional four other new group members, which include Debbie London, who joined as manufacturing management government to appear just after the rising quantity of titles in output Nafi Gordon-Sy, who boarded as head of household enjoyment, and arrived from BT Vision to expand the company’s platform, Dogwoof on Desire previous Trafalgar Releasing government Tom Howson, who joined as head of theatrical product sales and Rachel Brown, who came from output outlet Impartial Enjoyment as a revenue and marketing and advertising govt, and govt PA to Godas.

(Pictured, L-R: Katie Bench, Cleo Veger)