Sara Dosa is an American

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film director and producer. Dosa wrote, produced and directed the 2022 documentary film ''Fire of Love'', which was nominated for a

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and an

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. Dosa won the 2023 DGA Award for Outstanding Directing for the film. Her other works have received

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and

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, as well a Peabody win.

Early life

Dosa is a graduate of

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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.

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. In 2018 Dosa and Academy Award-winner

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co-directed an

-nominated episode of

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's ReMastered Series, '' Tricky Dick & The Man in Black''. That same year, Dosa was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Documentary Branch in 2018. 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. 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. ''Fire of Love'' was acquired by National Geographic Films and was released in 2022. ''Fire of Love'' was nominated for an

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at the

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Filmography

;Director *''The Last Season'' (2014) *'' ReMastered: Tricky Dick & the Man in Black'' (2018) *''The Seer & The Unseen'' (2019) *''

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'' (2022) ;Producer *'' The Last Season'' (2014) *'' Audrie & Daisy'' (2016) *'' An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'' (2017) *''Melting Ice'' (2017) *'' Survivors'' (2018) *'' The Edge of Democracy'' (2019) *''The Seer & The Unseen'' (2019) *''Extase'' (2020) *''

'' (2022) ;Writer *''

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Awards and nominations

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dosa, Sara Alumni of the London School of Economics American documentary film producers Directors Guild of America Award winners Living people Wesleyan University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)