Shane Boris

Shane Boris (born 1981, Denver) is a film producer, and founder and creative producer at Cottage M, an independent production house.[1][2] He is best known for the 2022 documentary films Fire of Love and Navalny, both of which were nominated for Academy Awards.[3][4][5]

Shane Boris
Born1981
Littleton, Colorado
Alma materOberlin College (BA) Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA)
OccupationFilm producer
Years active2004–present

Biography

Boris was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado[6] and attended high school at Colorado Academy, graduating in 2000. He studied religion and English at Oberlin College, and subsequently took a master's degree in international relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.[7] 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 SXSW, 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.[8] In 2020, The Edge of Democracy was nominated for an Oscar in the Documentary Feature category at the 92nd Academy Awards.[9] In 2023, he was nominated for two Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards for Documentary Feature for Fire of Love and Navalny.[10]

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
  • Navalny - 2022
  • King Coal - 2023

Executive Producer

  • Band - 2022

Awards and nominations
Year Category Organization Film Result
2020 Documentary Peabody awards The Edge of Democracy Won[11]
2020 Documentary Feature 92nd Academy Awards The Edge of Democracy Nominated
2023 Best Documentary British Academy Film Awards Fire of Love Nominated
2023 Best Documentary British Academy Film Awards Navalny Won[12]
2023 Outstanding Nonfiction Feature Cinema Eye Honors Fire of Love Nominated
2023 Documentary Feature 95th Academy Awards Fire of Love Nominated
2023 Documentary Feature 95th Academy Awards Navalny Won[13]
2023 Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures 34th Producers Guild of America Awards Navalny Won[14]

References
  1. "ABOUT". Cottage M.
  2. "Shane Boris". IMDb.
  3. Jill Goldsmith. "'Fire Of Love' To Pass $1 Million At Global Box Office, Becoming Year's Top-Grossing Documentary". Deadline.
  4. Etan Vlessing. "Neon, Nat Geo to Release Sundance Opener 'Fire of Love'". The Hollywood Reporter.
  5. john.moore@denvergazette.com, John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist. "On 'Fire': Denver filmmaker nominated for two documentaries at Academy Awards". Denver Gazette.
  6. Casey, Michael J. (November 21, 2022). "Shane Boris on FIRE OF LOVE".
  7. "Shane Boris '00". Colorado Academy.
  8. "Shane Boris".
  9. "2020 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org.
  10. Hilary Lewis. "'Oscars: Full List of Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter.
  11. "Peabody 30 Winners". August 24, 2020.
  12. film, Guardian (February 19, 2023). "Baftas 2023: the complete list of winners" – via The Guardian.
  13. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/12/entertainment/oscar-winners-2023/index.html
  14. "Producers Guild Awards Winners List 2023". February 25, 2023.
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