Shane Boris

Shane Boris (born 1981, Denver) is an American film producer and founder of Cottage M, an independent production house. He is best known for the 2022 documentary films Fire of Love and Navalny, both of which were nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards with Navalny winning, as well as the 2020 Academy Award-nominated The Edge of Democracy, the 2021 Emmy Award-nominated The Last Cruise, and the 2016 Sundance Award-winning All These Sleepless Nights. Boris was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado 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. 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.

In 2020, The Edge of Democracy was nominated for an Oscar in the Documentary Feature category at the 92nd Academy Awards. In 2023, he was nominated for two Oscars at the 95th Academy Awards for Documentary Feature for Fire of Love and Navalny.