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Shane Boris, (born 1981, Denver, Colorado) is a film producer and the founder of Cottage M, an independent production house. Boris was nominated for Best Documentary Feature for The Edge of Democracy at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. In 2022, Boris produced two acclaimed documentaries, Fire of Love and Navalny, which both secured Oscar nominations, and made him the first producer since Walt Disney to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in the same year.




Career


Boris was born in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from Colorado Academy in 2000, he pursued studies in religion and politics at Oberlin College, followed by a master's degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
Boris started work as a film producer with "You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't" in 2010, which was featured on multiple seasons of PBS's Independent Lens. His second feature, "Fuck For Forest" (2013) screened at various festivals including SXSW, winning Best Documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival. In 2016, "All These Sleepless Nights," premiered at Sundance, earning Best Directing in the International Documentary Competition.
In 2019, two major themes emerged as focuses for Boris' film work: the sentience of non-human nature as well as anti-authoritarianism. With long time collaborator Sara Dosa, he produced "The Seer and The Unseen", a magic realist documentary set in Iceland about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief. In 2020, "Stray" a creative nonfiction film that follows the lives of stray dogs in the streets of Istanbul - had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win several awards as well as an Indie Spirit nomination.
Boris achieved significant recognition with the Oscar Nominated The Edge of Democracy, a film that explored the complexities of democracy in Brazil. Boris received multiple nominations for The Last Cruise, an HBO documentary short chronicling the first outbreak of the coronavirus outside of China on the Diamond Princess cruise liner.
In 2023, Boris garnered dual Oscar nominations at the 95th Academy Awards."Fire of Love" was acquired by National Geographic Films at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen in theaters all over the world, as well as in partnership with museums including The Louvre and MoMA. Simultaneously, "Navalny", which was commissioned by CNN Films, won Best Documentary at the BAFTAs and at the 95th Academy Awards.
In addition to sharing producing and writing credits on "Fire of Love", Boris was also a producer and contributing writer on "King Coal," a documentary set in Appalachia. The film made its debut at Sundance and received nominations at the IDA and the 17th Cinema Eye Honors. Also in 2023, Boris wrote and produced Hollywoodgate, a documentary based in Berlin, which had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival and then one day later its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
Aside from producing, Boris has received an IDA award and Critics Choice nomination for writing, and has been a guest speaker at universities such as the Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia School of the Arts. Boris is also co-founder of Joon, a multidisciplinary incubator, and has worked as a strategist for non-profits, as a writing consultant for authors, and a song lyricist for musicians.




Filmography


Producer

Independent Lens, 1 episode - 2010
Elementary Cool - 2009
You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't - 2010
Fuck For Forest - 2013
Olmo and the Seagull - 2015
All These Sleepless Nights - 2016
Break - 2016
Walden: Life in the Woods - 2017
The Seer and the Unseen - 2019
The Edge of Democracy - 2019
Silent Rose - 2020
Stray - 2020
The Last Cruise - 2021
Fire of Love - 2022
Navalny - 2022
King Coal - 2023
Hollywoodgate - 2023
Executive Producer

Band - 2022




Awards and nominations






References






External links


Shane Boris at IMDb
Cottage M (Founder)
Joon Incubator (Founder)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Boris Johnson
• The Last Cruise
• Penghargaan Oscar ke-95
• Academy Awards ke-92
• Surrogates
• The High and the Mighty (film)
• Oppenheimer (film)
• Parodi
• NASCAR Seri Busch musim 2001
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Shane Boris
• Navalny (film)
• Fire of Love (2022 film)
• 95th Academy Awards
• Hollywoodgate
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
• 76th British Academy Film Awards
• 92nd Academy Awards
• King Coal (film)
• The Edge of Democracy