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. In 2022, Boris produced two documentaries, “Fire of Love” and “Navalny,” both of which secured Oscar nominations and marked him as the first producer since 1942 to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in the same year. Other recent films include “Hollywoodgate,” “King Coal,” “Stray,” “The Edge of Democracy,” “The Seer and The Unseen” and “All These Sleepless Nights.” 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 nonprofits, a writing consultant for authors and academics, and a song lyricist for musicians.