Shane Boris (born 1981, Denver) is a

film producer A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di ...

, and founder and creative producer at Cottage M, an independent production house. He is best known for the 2022 documentary films '' Fire of Love'' and ''

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'', both of which were nominated for Academy Awards.

Biography

Boris was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado and attended high school at Colorado Academy, graduating in 2000. He studied religion and English at

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

, and subsequently took a master's degree in international relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He began advising and then producing documentary films soon after. His first feature documentary as a producer, ''You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t'' (2010), was shown on several seasons of PBS's Independent Lens. ''Fuck For Forest'' (2013), screened at various festivals including

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, and won Best Documentary at the Warsaw International Film Festival. The creative nonfiction film, ''Olmo and the Seagull'' (2015), premiered at Locarno and won Best Documentary at the Rio International Film Festival. ''These Sleepless Nights'' (2016) premiered at Sundance where it won Best Directing in the International Documentary Competition. In 2020, '' The Edge of Democracy'' was nominated for an Oscar in the Documentary Feature category at the 92nd Academy Awards. In 2023, he was nominated for two Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards for Documentary Feature for '' Fire of Love'' and ''

''.

Filmography

Producer *''Independent Lens'', 1 episode - 2004 *''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 *''

'' - 2022 *''King Coal'' - 2023 Executive Producer *''Band'' - 2022

Awards and nominations

References

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Cottage M (Founder)Joon Incubator (Founder)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boris, Shane Living people 1981 births American film producers Oberlin College alumni Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni Producers of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners