A conversation with Sara Dosa about working with representations of more-than-human nature to craft stories that illuminate how people make meaning amidst environmental and existential crises.
Oscar® and BAFTA-nominated director Sara Dosa will be in discussion about her body of work, Time and Water (2026), Fire of Love (2022), The Seer and the Unseen (2019) and The Last Season (2014), focusing on working with ecological and cultural memory in an era of profound upheaval. Through an interactive conversation, Dosa will focus on how she and her collaborators engage with concepts of time, including geologic “deep time,” cultural temporalities, and cinematic rhythms, to craft stories that centre nature’s sentience and also resonate on a deeply human register. She will reflect on collaboration as a creative ethos, tracing how relationships with subjects, landscapes, and forms of archives shape the films’ structure, ethics, and ways of seeing.
Speaker:
Sara Dosa (Director, Producer, Writer - Time and Water, Fire of Love)
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 change. 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 honours such as the Peabody and the Directors Guild of America Award. Her films have screened at 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.
Moderator:
To be announced
Supported by National Geographic
