Event

SNIFF the Dog Movie in Santa Fe

Sniff is a documentary wrapped in a fictional story about two British actors, hired to be the dress-up concierges of a high-end San Francisco dog hotel, who decide to use their time off to make a documentary about dogs. The trouble is, they're not quite making the same film.

Neil (Neil Morrissey: Bob the Builder, Men Behaving Badly) wants to regale us with heart-warming stories of unusual dogs. His dour partner Richard (Richard Huw: The Four Minute Mile, Splitting Heirs) is bent on investigating the lives of working dogs. Juliette (Amanda Plummer: Pulp Fiction, The Fisher King) is Neil's former love-interest and co-owner of the Infinite Paws Hotel along with her incredulous husband Derek (Maurice Godin: House, Monk, Working).

With Richard, we follow the lives of two puppies raised at Guide Dogs for the Blind as their paths diverge: Mikey, a yellow Lab who trains to become a working Guide Dog, and Gabby, a black Lab who is socialized at Guide Dogs but switches careers mid-stream to become a Search and Rescue Dog.

Neil's footage takes us on a romp in the ocean with King, a surfing Retriever. We run on the beach with Gus, a herd-dog, who has taken to rounding up sea-gulls for want of a good sheep, and we marvel at Retriever Harley as he and water-shy Zoli tag-team ball retrieval from the Klamath river.

Sniff is informative, fast-paced and fun for the whole family - just the way the dogs would want it!

Sniff! You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wanna be a dog.

10% of proceeds from DVDs sold after the screenings will benefit Assistance Dogs of the West.