Sara Dosa

Sara Dosa is an American documentary director and producer whose works have received Emmy and Independent Spirit Award nominations and a Peabody win. Her directing work focuses on the human relationship with non-human nature, often exploring themes of interconnection, myth, ecology and economy told through personal character stories[1].[2]

Early life

Dosa is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has a master's degree in cultural anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics & Political Science where her work focused on critical theory, the anthropology of economy and geographies of power.[3]

Career

Dosa's first film as a director The Last Season (2014), which follows two war veterans turned wild mushroom hunters who form an unexpected friendship in the Oregon woods, was nominated for the Independent Spirit "Truer Than Fiction" Award.[4] Dosa co-directed and Emmy-nominated episode of Netflix's Remastered Series, Tricky Dick & The Man in Black, with Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple, in 2018.[5] She directed and produced, The Seer & The Unseen in 2019, about Icelandic seer Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir who communicates with spirits of nature, which won awards at film festivals worldwide and was acquired by Utopia Distribution[6]. [7]

In 2022, Dosa directed Fire of Love, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as the Day One film in US Documentary Competition. Fire of Love won the Jonathan Oppenheimer Editing Award for editors Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput and received critical acclaim, named by Indiewire as the top documentary out of Sundance in a survey of 135 critics.[8] Fire of Love was acquired by National Geographic Films and is slated for a 2022 release.[9]

Dosa was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Documentary Branch in 2018 [10]

Filmography
Director
  • The Last Season (2014)
  • Tricky Dick & The Man in Black (2018)
  • The Seer & The Unseen (2019)
  • Fire of Love (2022)
Producer
Writer

Awards and nominations
Year Category Film Result
Peabody Awards 2017 Award of merit (producer) Audrie & Daisy Won
Emmy Awards 2019 Outstanding Research ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black Nominated

References
  1. https://www.signpostpictures.com/
  2. "Sara Dosa". IMDb.
  3. "Sara Dosa — Mirabel Pictures". Mirabel Pictures. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  4. "Spirit Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. 21 February 2015.
  5. "Dosa, Sara".
  6. "Tribeca Film Institute".
  7. "Sara Dosa".
  8. "Critics Survey: The Best Movies of Sundance 2022 According to 135 Critics". indiewire.com. February 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  9. "National Geographic Documentary Films Breaks Sundance Deal Logjam with Mid-7 Figure WW Pact for Hot Docu 'Fire of Love'". 23 January 2022.
  10. "ACADEMY INVITES 928 TO MEMBERSHIP". oscars.org. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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