Shane Boris

Roles: Special Guest, Producer

Shane Boris is an Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning producer. His films have premiered at festivals such as Sundance, screened in museums like MOMA, and have been commissioned by platforms like Netflix, HBO, and PBS. Recently, the Netflix Original THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, won Peabody and Platino Awards and was nominated for Critics’ Choice, Gotham, IDA and Academy Awards. It was also listed by The New York Times as one of the ten best movies of 2019. He has produced several other award winning films including the Critics’ Choice-nominated THE LAST CRUISE, the New York Times Critics’ Pick STRAY, the Golden Gate Award-winning THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN, and the scripted WALDEN: LIFE IN THE WOODS. Other credits include ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (Sundance, Best Directing), OLMO AND THE SEAGULL (Locarno, Jury Award), and FUCK FOR FOREST (Warsaw, Best Documentary). Shanewas recently an Impact Partners Producing Fellow and was named by DOC NYC as one of the “40 under 40” working in documentary. He is also the co-founder of Joon, a multidisciplinary incubator.