National Geographic Documentary Films is committed to bringing the world premium documentaries that cover timely, provocative and globally relevant stories from the very best documentary filmmakers in the world. Furthering knowledge and understanding of our world has been the core purpose of National Geographic for over 130 years, and today we are committed to going deeper, going further, and continuing to push boundaries through the beauty and power of documentary filmmaking. Meet the cast from the upcoming film "Time and Water."

Sara Dosa, Director / Producer / Writer

Sara Dosa is an Oscar^®-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on the human relationship with more-than-human nature. The films she has directed, "Fire of Love" (2022), "The Seer & The Unseen" (2019) and "The Last Season" (2015), have won numerous awards, including a Peabody and the Directors' Guild of America Award, and were nominated for over 40 awards, including an Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award. Dosa's work has been shown at festivals worldwide, including 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. In 2018, Dosa was named to the inaugural class of DOCNYC's "40 under 40" and inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures' documentary branch. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in sociology and anthropology and has a joint master's in anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dosa lives and works in California.

Shane Boris, Producer

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.

Elijah Stevens, Producer

Elijah Stevens is a documentary producer based in New York City. He has produced "Time and Water" (Sundance 2026; National Geographic Documentary Films) and "Barbara Forever," (Sundance 2026). He also associate-produced "Hollywoodgate" (Venice 2023; BBC Storyville), "King Coal" (Sundance 2023; POV), the Oscar-nominated "Fire of Love" (Sundance 2022; National Geographic Documentary Films), "The Seer and The Unseen" (2019), "Sky and Ground" (2018), "Towards the North" (2017), and the Oscar shortlisted "Los Comandos" (2017), as well as co-producing "The Invisible Extinction" (CPH:DOX 2022). Stevens' 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. He was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio and is a 2025-2026 Sundance Producers Lab fellow.

Jameka Autry, Producer

Jameka Autry is an award-winning filmmaker and investigative storyteller whose work centers on themes of underrepresentation and invisibility across documentary features, shorts and series. A 2022 Sundance Catalyst fellow, 2020 Women at Sundance | Adobe fellow, and 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Lab fellow, she has also been honored with the Impact Partners Documentary Producers fellowship, the Sundance/A&E Brave Storyteller Award, and selection to DOC NYC's inaugural "40 Under 40" list. Autry completed a postgraduate fellowship at UC Berkeley's investigative reporting program and is a 2022 Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood fellow. Her recent producing work includes "Time and Water," "Through the Night," "Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops," "Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing," "In My Father's House," "Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.," "We the Animals" and "Love, Gilda."

Andri Snær Magnason, Film Participant / Co-Producer / Writer / Narrator

Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, plays, nonfiction and science fiction. His book "On Time and Water" has been translated into more than 30 languages. Magnason has received international awards like the Philip K Dick Honorary Mention for "LoveStar," the Prima Tiziano Terzani in Italy for "On Time and Water" and the Green Earth Book Award for his YA book, "The Casket of Time." "The Story of the Blue Planet" has been translated into more than 40 languages and his play based on the story has been performed in 15 countries. He is the co-director of three documentary films that have premiered in international festivals like IDFA, RIFF, CPH:DOX and HOTDOCS. He is the co-director, with Þorfinnur Guðnason, of the documentary film "Dreamland" (2009). His second documentary film, directed with Anni Ólafsdóttir, "The Hero's Journey to the Third Pole," internationally premiered at CPH:DOX in 2021. His third documentary premiered in 2021, also with Ólafsdóttir, "Apausalype" (Emergence Magazine).