Meet the core creative team —
SARA DOSA | DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
Sara Dosa is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on the human relationship with non-human nature. The films she has directed have won a Peabody and the Directors’ Guild of America Awards, among others, and have been nominated for an Oscar, BAFTA and Independent Spirit Award. Dosa’s work has been shown at festivals worldwide including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel, among others, and has screened in partnership with museums such as the MOMA, The Academy Museum, BAMPFA and The Louvre.
Most recently, Dosa directed the Academy Award nominated "Fire of Love," which premiered on Opening Night of Sundance 2022 where it won the Editing Award and was acquired by National Geographic Films. “Fire of Love” was released theatrically in 2022 and went on to be nominated for over 40 awards worldwide, winning the DGA Outstanding Direction in a Documentary Film, the Critics' Choice Award for Best Archival Documentary, IDA’s Best Writing and Best Cinematography, Cinema Eye Honors for Best Score, Best Editing and Best Visual Design, among others. Additional directing titles include the 2015 Indie-Spirited Award nominated "The Last Season" and the 2019 Golden Gate Award-winning film "The Seer & The Unseen." Dosa's producing credits include the Peabody winning "Audrie & Daisy" (Sundance / Netflix 2016) and the Peabody and Emmy-nominated "Survivors" (IDFA / POV 2018). Dosa co-produced the Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" (Sundance / Netflix 2019) as well as "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" (Sundance / Paramount 2017).
In 2018, Dosa was named to the inaugural class of DOCNYC's "40 under 40" and was also inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture's Documentary Branch. She graduated from Wesleyan University and has a joint masters in cultural anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
SHANE BORIS | PRODUCER
Shane Boris is an Academy Award-winning and Peabody Award-winning producer focusing on films that push the boundaries of conventional forms in order to tell timeless stories. His films have premiered at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Visions du Réel, and Locarno; shown at museums such as MOMA and The Louvre; released theatrically across the world; and have been commissioned by streaming platforms such as Netflix and for television programs like PBS’s Independent Lens.
In 2022, Boris premiered two films at Sundance: FIRE OF LOVE, which won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award; and NAVANLY, which won the Audience Award and the Festival Favorite Award. Both films were nominated for the 2023 Oscars and NAVALNY won the Academy Award. Both films screened at festivals worldwide and enjoyed critical praise and theatrical releases.
In 2019, Boris produced the Netflix Original THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, which was nominated for Critics Choice, Gotham, IDA and Academy Awards and was listed by The New York Times as one of the ten best movies of 2019. He also produced the SFFILM’s Golden Gate Award winning THE SEER & THE UNSEEN and the scripted WALDEN: LIFE IN THE WOODS. Other credits include ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (Sundance, Best Directing), OLMO AND THE SEAGULL (Rio Film Fest, Best Documentary), and F**K FOR FOREST (Warsaw Film Festival, Best Documentary). Shane was recently an Impact Partners Producing Fellow and was named by DOC NYC as one of the “40 under 40” working in documentary. In addition to his work in film and TV, Shane has been a startup cofounder, a writing consultant for authors and academics, and a song lyricist. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
ERIN CASPER | EDITOR
Erin Casper is an Emmy-nominated documentary editor whose award-winning films have been nominated for an Oscar, Emmys, Indie Spirit Awards, and have won a Peabody. Her films have screened at Sundance, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, True/False, Visions du Réel; distributed in movie theaters internationally, and broadcast on HBO, Showtime, PBS, The New York Times, Field of Vision, and Vanity Fair.
Her selected editing credits include FIRE OF LOVE, for which she won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at its Sundance 2022 Premiere; RISK, directed by Laura Poitras (Neon, Showtime); AMERICAN PROMISE (Sundance Special Jury Award, Emmy nominee); ROLL RED ROLL (Netflix, POV), and THE LAST SEASON (Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award nominee). Outside of her work as an editor, Erin is a frequent panelist and mentor for Sundance, Tribeca, IFP, and True/False filmmaking labs, and is a 2011 Fellow and board member of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. She is a member of of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
PATRICK KOLLMAN | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Patrick Kollman is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, and journalist living in Oslo, Norway. Over the past decade Kollman has worked on films around the world, such as the award-winning THE WAITING ROOM, (TRUE/FALSE 2012), AUDRIE & DAISY (Sundance / Netflix, 2016) and AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (Sundance / Paramount 2017). His work has been shown at festivals that include Cannes, Sundance, San Francisco International, True/False, and Zurich, among others. Kollman earned a BA in Linguistics from the University of Oregon and a Master of Journalism from the University of California Berkeley.
HEATHER MILLARD | CO-PRODUCER
Heather Millard founded and heads Compass Films, which produces independent nonfiction and fiction content for cinema, television and online. Based in Reykjavik, Compass Films also provides production services throughout Iceland, as well as consultancy and financial services to international productions. Heather is an experienced producer and sales agent. She has been working in the film and television industry in the UK since 2005 and relocated to Iceland in 2009 where she continued to produce international content. Her award-winning productions include: ‘YARN’ (SXSW 2016, Netflix 2017), ‘Of Good Report' (TIFF 2013, BFI London 2013), ’ The Wall’ (Winner Galway Film Fleadh 2016) and ‘Future of Hope’ (IDFA 2010, Thessaloniki 2011). Currently in development with a children’s animated series ’Ormhildur the Brave', factual entertainment series ‘In Stitches’ (Nord Vision 2017) and in production with feature-documentary ‘Science of Play’.
ARNAR SIGURÐSSON | CO-PRODUCER
Arnar Sigurðsson is a film producer based in Thingeyri, Iceland has handled the logistics for foreign documentary production in Iceland for TV stations such as VPRO (Holland), Arte (Germany/France) and TeleSUR (Venezuela), and directed a documentary episode for Fashion One in the Eco Fashion series. Arnar is deeply involved in Iceland's cultural scene. He currently runs the Blue Bank, a creative and innovation hub in the West Fjörds, and co-founded Karolina Fund, one of the biggest crowdfunding platforms in the Nordic region; and, is responsible for Klapp, and organization that runs training and other support for filmmakers, sponsored by the Reykjavik municipality.
ELIJAH STEVENS | ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Elijah Stevens is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores migration, political geography & the Anthropocene. As a producer, Elijah has worked for companies such as Part2 Pictures, Show of Force, People’s Television, Isotope Films, and Cousins Company. He has associate produced the feature-length documentaries FIRE OF LOVE (Sundance 2022), KING COAL (Sundance 2023) SKY AND GROUND (DOC NYC 2018 / PBS) and BLUE NOTE RECORDS: BEYOND THE NOTES (Tribeca 2018) the Academy-shortlisted documentary short LOS COMANDOS and others. Elijah has associate produced short-form documentary films for The New York Times, as well as music videos and commercial content. He was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, where he co-directed the forthcoming film 15 FRAMES FROM NOW.
LAWRENCE EVERSON | SOUND EDITOR & RE-RECORDING MIXER
Lawrence Everson is an Emmy winning and Golden Reel nominated Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording mixer specializing in documentary films and television. He has worked on a wide variety of award-winning projects that have taken home prizes from Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and the Academy Awards. His work also includes broadcast and premium TV nonfiction series mixing, immersive audio design, and advertising.
Educated at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, he has returned there to guest lecture for the Interactive Media Division. Lawrence has also spoken as a featured panelist at Hot Docs and the Maryland Film Festival regarding the art of documentary sound, lectured classes at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri and David Lynch’s MA in Film program, been an advisor for the Saul Zaentz Innovation Labs, and has been profiled by Filmmaker Magazine, Creative Cow Magazine and Pro Sound News. In 2019 Lawrence was also chosen by Doc NYC as part of their prestigious 40-Under-40 list.