Grinning Dog Pictures launched in 1995, breaking all records for Lifetime Television with their one-hour special, Jessica Savitch: An Intimate Portrait. This biography made TV history as the highest rated documentary ever on basic cable television. The program won the Bronze Award at Worldfest Houston International Film Festival '96, the largest television and film festival in the world.

With thirty-eight national and international awards for film and television to their credit, Grinning Dog Pictures is a team of forward thinkers doing breakthrough programming. Their range of projects runs from award-winning, big-screen film attractions, to global world premiere series.

For the 1996-97 season, GDP delivered seven original hours to The Discovery Global Networks for Science Frontiers, a primetime series airing on The Learning Channel and Discovery globally. Programs in the series include Wolfman: The Myth and the Science, TechnoSpy, The Real Bionic Man, Alien Hand, The Mystery of Twins, First Contact and Killer Bees, which proved to be the most watched documentary of the 1996 season on Channel Four in the United Kingdom.

Their Wolfman: The Myth and the Science special drew more than four times the average number of primetime viewers on Discovery Europe, and won the prestigious Silver Medal for documentary directing at Worldfest Houston '97.

The Mystery of Twins took the Gold Medal in the same competition.

For the 1997-98 season, they wrote, produced and directed episodes of Medical Detectives, the highly rated crime science series that airs on TLC and Discovery Europe.

Grinning Dog's hour-long special, The Curse of Tutankhamun, premiered in the USA on TLC in 1999 and is still airing globally on the Discovery Networks. The film garnered the coveted Gold Star for "Documentary Directing" from the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival 1999, and a Gold Star for "History & Archaeology" at the Flagstaff International Film Festival.

In 2000, 2001 and 2002 airing in primetime on Court TV and NBC network, the series Forensic Files features episodes produced, directed and written by Grinning Dog Pictures.

From 1998 to 2002, Grinning Dog Pictures was commissioned to develop four feature length films for the spectacular 70mm IMAX/OMNIMAX format. GDP is currently in development on a fifth IMAX feature film of their original concept.

Map of the Missing, currently in production, is a documentary film on 30,000 missing people in Bosnia. Screened at the 2002 Moondance International Film Festival, it received the Gold Star top honors at the 2002 Worldfest Houston Film Festival and was chosen for IFP in New York 2002.

Grinning Dog Pictures currently has many global documentary projects in various stages of development and pre-production. They include IMAX feature length films, television series, mini-series, one hours and feature films for theatrical release. Some are platform projects with accompanying books, CDs, DVDs, websites and other ancillary items.

Jail Journey currently in preproduction is an unprecendented experience as seen through the eys of three inmates in a Florida prison. The film follows them from Lee County Stockade, where they agree to participate in a personal growth training called the Journey, to their next destination in life - another prison, a half way house or back into the world. Riveting real life drama reveals the choices they now make.