Fire of Love

Sara Dosa (Director) 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.

Shane Boris (Producer) is an Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning producer. His films have premiered at festivals such as Sundance, screened in museums like MOMA, and commissioned by platforms like Netflix, HBO and PBS. Recently, the Netflix Original “The Edge of Democracy” won Peabody and Platino Awards and was nominated for Critics’ Choice, Gotham, IDA and Academy Awards. It was also listed by The New York Times as one of the ten best movies of 2019. He has produced several other award-winning films, including the Critics’ Choice-nominated “The Last Cruise,” the New York Times Critics’ Pick “Stray,” the Golden Gate Award-winning “The Seer and the Unseen,” and the scripted “Walden: Life in the Woods.” Other credits include “All These Sleepless Nights” (Sundance, Best Directing), “Olmo And The Seagull” (Locarno, Jury Award), and “Fuck for Forest” (Warsaw, Best Documentary). Boris was recently an Impact Partners Producing Fellow and was named by DOC NYC as one of the “40 Under 40” working in documentaries. He is also the co-founder of Joon, a multidisciplinary incubator.

For more than 25 years, Ina Fichman, Intuitive Pictures, has produced award-winning documentary and fiction films and interactive projects. Many of her creative documentaries have been released in theaters in Canada and abroad, and she has played at festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, RIDM, CPHDOX, Venice, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF and others. Award-winning productions include Amer Shomali’s “The Wanted 18,” “Monsoon” (Canada’s Top 10) and “Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.” Recent productions include “Stray,” “The Gig Is Up,” “Once Upon A Sea,” “Blue Box,” “The Oslo Diaries,” “Inside Lehman Brothers,” “Gift” and “Laila at the Bridge.” In 2018, Fichman was the recipient of the Don Haig Award from Hot Docs, which recognizes the work of a Canadian independent producer. She is currently chair of the national board of the Documentary Association of Canada and is one of the chairs of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA). Fichman is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Greg Boustead founded Sandbox Films to tell more artful and inclusive stories about science. He oversees all aspects of the company, from editorial direction and on-location production to general strategy and greenlighting new projects. Boustead’s played key roles on over a dozen feature-length documentaries, including most recently as executive producer for “All Light, Everywhere” (which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance), “Human Nature” (which was nominated for three Emmys and acquired by Netflix) and “Fireball,” an Apple Original documentary directed by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer.

Jessica Harrop is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about science through film. She runs development and production for Sandbox Films, including sharing responsibility for all project decisions and company strategy and acting as an executive producer for Sandbox Films documentaries. Harrop has produced content for a variety of outlets, including Netflix, Showtime, Discovery, National Geographic and PBS. Her credits include the Netflix documentary series FOLLOW THIS, James Cameron’s Emmy Award-winning series “Years of Living Dangerously,” “Bill Nye Saves the World,” and “First in Human.” She holds a degree in ecology and evolutionary biology and a certificate in theater from Princeton University, where she has been co-teaching an undergraduate film course on communicating climate change.

Erin Casper is an Emmy-nominated editor whose previous work with Sara Dosa includes “The Last Season” (an Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award nominee) and “The Seer and the Unseen,” which The Hollywood Reporter called “beautifully constructed” and “captivating.” Her other recent editing credits include “Becoming” (Netflix), “Risk” (Neon, Showtime), Emmy-nominee “American Promise” (New York Film Festival, POV) and Peabody-nominee “Roll Red Roll” (Netflix, POV).

Jocelyne Chaput is a Bay Area editor who hails from Canada. Her documentary credits include the features “People of a Feather” (Hot Docs) and “Fractured Land” (Hot Docs). She has also worked on a handful of acclaimed shorts, most recently Sheona MacDonald’s “Into Light” (Hot Docs) and Josephine Anderson’s “On Falling” (Tribeca).