Director

Ibrahim Nash'at

Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Ibrahim Nash’at is an Egyptian, Berlin-based filmmaker. His debut feature, Hollywoodgate was shortlisted for the Academy Awards and IDA Awards, nominated for the German Film, DGA and Peabody Awards, and the Cinema Eye Honors, and won dozens of prizes from festivals and institutions. The film premiered at Venice and Telluride Film Festivals in 2023, screened at over 100 international festivals, was widely acclaimed, and distributed worldwide. He co-edited Under the Sky of Damascus by Talal Derki. Nash’at holds an MA in Documentary Filmmaking from Met Film School, Germany and a BS in Pharmaceutical Science from MIU, Egypt. He is a member of the European Film Academy.

Producer

Jameka Autry

Jameka Autry is a producer, director, and 2020 Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellow. Past fellowships and honors include the 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellowship, 2017 Impact Partners Creative Producing Fellowship, and 2018 Double Exposure Investigative Film Fellowship. In 2018 she was selected as part of the inaugural DOC NYC 40 Under 40 List. She was recently awarded the Sundance/A&E Brave Storyteller Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and 2019 Post Graduate Fellowship at the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Currently she balances her film projects with her new role as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Most recently she completed work on THROUGH THE NIGHT, which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Other producing works include Emmy award winning ERNIE & JOE: CRISIS COPS, which won the jury grand prize at SXSW and Boston International Film Festival, and premiered on HBO in 2019. Jameka has also produced MARATHON: The Patriots Day Bombing (HBO), IN MY FATHER’‘S HOUSE (Showtime), MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. (Sundance ‘‘18) and served as a Consulting Producer on WE THE ANIMALS (Netflix) and LOVE GILDA (CNN).

Producer

Elijah Stevens

Elijah Stevens (he/him) is a documentary producer based in New York City. He has produced BARBARA FOREVER (Sundance 2026) and TIME AND WATER (Sundance 2026). He associate produced HOLLYWOODGATE (Venice 2023; BBC Storyville), KING COAL (Sundance 2023, POV), Oscar-nominated FIRE OF LOVE (Sundance 2022, National Geographic Documentary Films), co-produced THE INVISIBLE EXTINCTION (CPH:DOX 2022) and associate produced THE SEER & THE UNSEEN (2019), SKY AND GROUND (2018), TOWARDS THE NORTH (2017), and LOS COMANDOS (2017), which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Elijah’s work has been supported by Sundance, IDA, the Inmaat Foundation, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, The Gotham, DocsBarcelona, DOC NYC, DOK.Forum, and Ji.hlava, among others. Elijah was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, and is a 2025-26 Sundance Producers Lab fellow.

Executive Producer

Shane Boris

SHANE BORIS is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Academy Award nominated producer and writer working on films that push the boundaries of conventional form in order to tell timeless and cinematic stories. His films have premiered at festivals like Sundance and Venice, screened with museums including The Louvre and MOMA, received honors such as BAFTA and Peabody Awards, and were commissioned or acquired by distributors such as National Geographic, Netflix, HBO, and CNN. Recent films include: HOLLYWOODGATE, KING COAL, STRAY, THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN, and ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. In 2022, Boris produced two documentaries, FIRE OF LOVE and NAVALNY, both securing Oscar nominations and marking him the first producer since 1942 to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in the same year. He went on to win the Oscar for NAVALNY. Boris has also been a guest speaker at universities such as the Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia School of the Arts, and has worked as a strategist for non-profits, a writing consultant for authors and academics, and a song lyricist for musicians. Shane is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Executive Producer

Sara Dosa

Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated nonfiction director and Peabody award-winning producer whose film work explores the human relationship to non-human nature often through tropes of allegory, myth and magic realism. Her work has been shown at festivals worldwide such as Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel and has screened in partnership with museums such as the MOMA, BAMPFA and The Louvre. Most recently, Dosa directed "Fire of Love," which premiered on Opening Night of Sundance 2022 where it won the Jonathan Oppenheimer Editing Award and was acquired by National Geographic Films and Neon for a 2022 release. Other directing titles include the Indie-Spirited Award nominated "The Last Season" a verité portrait of two Oregon veterans turned wild mushroom hunters; and the Golden Gate Award-winning "The Seer & The Unseen," a magic realist fable about and Icelandic woman in communication with spirits of nature. Dosa's producing credits include the Peabody winning "Audrie & Daisy" (Sundance / Netflix 2016) and the Peabody and Emmy-nominated "Survivors" (IDFA / POV 2018). Dosa co-produced the Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" (Sundance / Netflix 2019) as well as "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" (Sundance / Paramount 2017). In 2018, Dosa was named to the inaugural class of DOCNYC's "40 under 40" and was also inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture's Documentary Branch. She graduated with a high honors degree in anthropology from Wesleyan University and with a joint masters in cultural anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dosa lives and works in Berkeley, California. (Updated Nov 2022) Related Contact(s):