Sara Dosa (USA)
Filmmaker
Independent

Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated doc director and Peabody award-winning producer whose interests lay in telling unexpected character-driven stories about ecology, economy, and community.

Her first feature as a director, The Last Season, won a Golden Gate Award at its SFIFF 2014 premiere and was nominated for the Indie Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award. Dosa co-directed an Emmy-nominated episode of the Netflix music series Re-Mastered. Dosa’s third feature as a director, The Seer & The Unseen, premiered in 2019, winning awards at a number of festivals.

As a producer, she produced the Peabody-winning Audrie & Daisy (2016 Sundance/Netflix Originals) and the Peabody- and Emmy-nominated Survivors (2018 IDFA/POV). Dosa co-produced the Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy (2019 Sundance/Netflix Originals) as well as An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017 Sundance / Paramount).

In 2018, DOC NYC named Dosa to the inaugural “40 Under 40” class of documentary filmmakers and was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She graduated from Wesleyan University and holds a master’s in anthropology and international development economics from the London School of Economics.

Dosa’s new film, the Academy Award-nominated, Fire of Love tells the extraordinary love story of intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft. Winner of the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at Sundance, Best Documentary at DocsBarcelona, and the Special Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at Seattle International Film Festival – Fire of Love is nominated for seven awards at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, including Best Director and Best Documentary Feature.