THE DOG
by Allison Berg & Frank Keraudren
SYNOPSIS
Coming of age in the 1960s, John Wojtowicz took pride in being a pervert. His libido was excessive even by the libertine standards of the era, with multiple wives and lovers, both women and men. In August, 1972, he attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover’s sex-reassignment surgery. Three years later, Al Pacino portrayed his character instigating the unforgettable crime on the big screen. The award-winning film "Dog Day Afternoon" had a profound influence on Wojtowicz. When he emerged from prison six years later, he became known as “The Dog.”
DETAILS
101 mins
2013
USA
English
TRAILER
CREDITS
Directed and Produced by Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren
Music by Mark Dancigers, Troy Herion
Cinematography by Nimrod Bachar, Wolfgang Held, Amanda Micheli
Edited by Frank Keraudren
BIOGRAPHY
DIRECTOR - ALLISON BERG
Allison Berg is an award-winning filmmaker who directs and produces feature-length documentary films and television documentary series. Allison’s first film, Witches in Exile, focused on women accused of witchcraft and banished to remote villages in Northern Ghana. The film premiered at the 2004 SXSW Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature Film. Berg has received grants from such prestigious foundations as the Soros Documentary Fund, New York State Council of the Arts, Eastman Fund, Wellspring Foundation and Women in Film Foundation. Witches in Exile has screened at festivals throughout the world and has both international television and educational distribution. Recent television credits include Supervising Producer and Director on documentary series and specials for broadcasters such as Sundance Channel, MTV, Oxygen and A&E.
DIRECTOR - FRANK KERAUDREN
Frank Keraudren is an award-winning filmmaker with directing and editing creditsin both documentary and narrative film.Frank co-directed and edited "The LastCigarette" (New Yorker Films), "Who wants to be president?" (TLC) and "Lust inLas Vegas" (FX) with co-director Kevin Rafferty.He then collaborated withAllison Berg on "Witches in Exile" (Special Jury Award, SXSW 2004), which heco-produced and edited.Editing credits include "The Drug Years" (Cine EagleAward, IDA Award nomination), "I Think I Do" (Brian Sloan) and "Little RedRiding Hood" (David Kaplan).Keraudren received an MFA from NYU' sGraduate Film program.
SELECT FESTIVALS
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013〡NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2013〡BERLINALE 2014〡SXSW 2014〡DOCAVIV 2014〡THESSALONIKI 2014〡HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014〡DOCUMENTA MADRID 2014〡SHEFFIELD DOC FEST 2014〡AFI DOCS 2014〡ANTENNA 2014〡GHENT FILM FESTIVAL 2014〡VIENNALE 2014〡CORK FILM FESTIVAL 2014〡
PRESS
“The Real story behind Dog Day Afternoon is even wilder”
- Bloomberg
“How often Hollywood embellishes. How rare, then, to find a documentary like 'The Dog,' in which we discover that, if anything, Sidney Lumet’s “Dog Day Afternoon” left out much of the incredible story behind its 1972 hostage crisis”
- Variety
“As raw as a Charles Bukowski sonnet...an absorbing, rollicking documentary.”
- New York Times
“Hilarious, poignant and fascinating...one of the best documentaries of the year.”
- The Film Stage
“Galvanising...brash and unrepentant...[constructed] with crafty tabloid urgency.”
- BBC
“Strange, stirring, almost unbelievable...its central figure an utterly eccentric character.”
- IndieWire