Director

Sara Dosa

Directing

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Beginning to build directing work.

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0.7

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 1349268

IMDb ID: nm2393385

Known for: Directing

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2014 - 2026

Years active: 13

Average TMDB rating: 7.14

Wikidata: Q110768653

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Biography

Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world. Her films interweave themes of ecology, cultural memory, and myth to illuminate how people make meaning amidst environmental and existential forces. Dosa’s body of work includes Time and Water (Sundance, 2026), Fire of Love (Sundance, 2022), The Seer & The Unseen (SFFILM, 2019), and The Last Season (SFFILM, 2015). Collectively, her films have been nominated for over 40 awards, including the Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, and Independent Spirit Award, and have received honors such as the Peabody and the Directors Guild of America Award. Her films has screened at leading festivals including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, and Visions du Réel, as well as in partnership with institutions such as MoMA, BAMPFA, and The Louvre. In 2018, Dosa was named to DOCNYC’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list and inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch. Dosa holds a degree in sociology and anthropology from Wesleyan University and a joint master’s in anthropology and international development from the London School of Economics. She lives and works in California.