About

Smoking Dogs Films (Ltd) is the film and television production company set up by three Grierson Award winning film makers the director John Akomfrah, and the producers Lina Gopaul and David Lawson. Smoking Dogs Films was conceived in 1998 to produce feature films, feature documentaries and new media material for theatrical broadcast and multimedia release.Smoking Dogs Films have produced a raft of critically acclaimed, compelling and high profile music, arts and social issue documentaries for broadcast and theatrical release. Distributed internationally they include
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN, URBAN SOUL- STORIES ON THE MAKING OF MODERN R&B MUSIC,
STAN TRACEY,
THE GODFATHER OF BRITISH JAZZ,
The WONDERFUL WORLD OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG, GOLDIE- WHEN SATURN RETURNZ, SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X, MARTIN LUTHER KING, DAYS OF HOPE, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, and RIOT. The company have worked with BBC TV, Channel 4 TV, ZDF,ARTE,A&E and many others.