EXCLUSIVE: London-based documentary specialist Dogwoof is continuing its push into the production space as it announces a partnership with Australia-based outfit WildBear Entertainment.The deal will see the two companies, who most recently collaborated on 2021 Sundance title Playing With Sharks, develop, finance and co-produce an initial slate of five documentaries.
The companies are currently in-production on their first project, Fastest Thing On Wings (working title) which will reunite Playing With Sharks director Sally Aitken with WildBear producer Bettina Dalton.
WildBear CEO Michael Tear will exec produce the project.Fastest Thing On Wings is inspired by Terry Masear’s book of the same name, which follows the journey of a hummingbird rehabilitator in L.A.“It’s about hummingbirds and all of this bejewelled magic that comes with them” Dalton tells Deadline of the project. “It’s sort of like magical realism where we tell the story of this hummingbird rehabilitator in a season in L.A., and we get all the backstories from these different people that bring the birds in.”This latest deal marks the second international commercial partnership for Dogwoof, which operates across production, sales and distribution, following its deal with Danish outfit Elk Film earlier this year.“We support projects by talent that we really believe in,” says Dogwoof CEO Anna Godas, whose company has worked on award-winning projects ranging from The Act Of Killing to Blackfish to Becoming Cousteau. “And WildBear was a natural fit for us.
It’s an opportunity we see where we can look to independently finance these projects where possible by assessing different models where we can minimize risk and we can be entrepreneurial and develop a real
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