Sara Dosa

Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated doc director and Peabody award-winning producer whose interests lay in telling character-driven stories about the human relationship to ecology and economy. Her first feature as a director, "The Last Season", which tells the story of two former soldiers turned wild mushroom hunters, took home a Golden Gate Award at its SFIFF 2014 premiere, and was nominated for the Indie Spirit Truer than Fiction Award. Recently, Dosa co-directed an Emmy nominated episode of the Netflix music series Re-Mastered about Johnny Cash's 1970 concert for Richard Nixon. Dosa's third feature as a director, "The Seer & The Unseen," premiered in 2019, winning awards at a number of festivals, including the McBaine Bay Area Documentary Prize at its SFIFF premiere and Best Foreign Documentary at the Oslo Independent Film Festival. "The Seer & The Unseen" was called "Captivating, strong and surprising" by The Hollywood Reporter and "Elegant, deft and inquisitive" by Variety, and "Sublime" by The Playlist. As a documentary producer, she recently 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), the follow up to Al Gore's seminal 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth." In 2018, DOC NYC named Dosa to the inaugural "40 under 40" class of documentary filmmakers to watch and was also inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Documentary Branch. She graduated from Wesleyan University holds a joint Masters in Anthropology and International Development Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. She lives and works in San Francisco, California.