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Sara Dosa is an American documentary director and producer. Dosa wrote, produced and directed the 2022 documentary film Fire of Love, which was nominated for a BAFTA and an Academy Award. Dosa won the 2023 DGA Award for Outstanding Directing for the film. Her other works have received Emmy and Independent Spirit Award, as well a Peabody win.

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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. [1]

Career

Dosa's first film as a director was 2014's The Last Season, which followed two war veterans turned wild mushroom hunters who form an unexpected friendship in the Oregon woods. It was nominated for the Independent Spirit "Truer Than Fiction" Award in 2015. [2] In 2018 Dosa and Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple co-directed an Emmy-nominated episode of Netflix's ReMastered Series, Tricky Dick & The Man in Black . [3] That same year, Dosa was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Documentary Branch in 2018. [4]

In 2019 she directed and produced The Seer & The Unseen, about Icelandic seer Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir, who communicates with spirits of nature. The feature won awards at film festivals worldwide and was acquired by Utopia Distribution. [5] [6]

In 2022, Dosa directed Fire of Love [7] 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 was released in 2022. [9] Fire of Love was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. [10] [11]

Filmography

Director
Producer
Writer

Awards and nominations

YearCategoryFilmResult
Peabody Awards 2017Award of merit (producer)Audrie & DaisyWon
Peabody Awards 2022Award of merit (producer) Fire of Love Won
Emmy Awards 2019Outstanding ResearchReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in BlackNominated
British Academy Film Awards 2023Best DocumentaryFire of LoveNominated
Academy Awards 2023Best Documentary FeatureFire of LoveNominated
Directors Guild of America Award 2023Best Directing for a Documentary FeatureFire of LoveWon

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References

  1. ↑ "Sara Dosa — Mirabel Pictures". Mirabel Pictures. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Spirit Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter . February 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dosa, Sara".
  4. ↑ "ACADEMY INVITES 928 TO MEMBERSHIP". oscars.org. June 25, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Tribeca Film Institute".
  6. ↑ "Sara Dosa".
  7. ↑ Mitchell2023-01-13T14:47:00+00:00, Wendy. "Sara Dosa on 'Fire Of Love': "This forced me to work and think in a completely different way"". Screen.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ "Critics Survey: The Best Movies of Sundance 2022 According to 135 Critics". indiewire.com. February 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
  9. ↑ "National Geographic Documentary Films Breaks Sundance Deal Logjam with Mid-7 Figure WW Pact for Hot Docu 'Fire of Love'". January 23, 2022.
  10. ↑ "95th Oscar Nominations Announcement | Hosted by Riz Ahmed & Allison Williams" – via www.youtube.com.
  11. ↑ "2023 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org.
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