Filmmaker Screening Series
“The Last Season”
With Special Guest: Sara Dosa
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7pm – Thursday, March 15th at the San Francisco Film School
Amid the bustling world of central Oregon’s wild mushroom hunting camps, the lives of two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a 75 year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in Vietnam, and Kouy, a 46 year-old platoon leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Freedom Fighters who battled the Khmer rouge, come together each fall to hunt the elusive Matsutake Mushroom, a rare mushroom prized in Japanese culture and cuisine. However, the pair discover more than just mushrooms in the woods: they find a new life, and livelihood; and, a means to slowly heal the scarring wounds of war. Told over the course of one Matsutake Mushroom season, THE LAST SEASON is a journey into the woods, into the memory of war and survival, telling a story of family from an unexpected place.
Nominated for Independent Spirit’s “Truer Than Fiction Award,” THE LAST SEASON made its world premiere at the 2014 San Francisco International Film Festival where it took home the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Documentary and made its international premiere at Toronto’s Hot Docs International Documentary Festival. THE LAST SEASON has gone on to tour festivals nationally and internationally and was recently acquired by PBS for a national television broadcast.
Watch the trailer for THE LAST SEASON here
SARA DOSA is an award-winning documentary director and producer based in San Francisco, California. Dosa’s feature directorial debut, THE LAST SEASON made its World Premiere in Competition at the 2014 San Francisco International Film Festival where it took home a Golden Gate Award, and went on to tour the national and international festival circuit. THE LAST SEASON was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award, was acquired by PBS for national broadcast and by First Run Features for its 2015 theatrical release.
Most recently, she co-produced AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER, the follow-up documentary to Al Gore’s seminal AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which premiered on Opening Night at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and made its international premiere at Cannes. Dosa produced the award-winning AUDRIE & DAISY about teenage sexual assault and bullying, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix Originals. In addition to THE SEER, Dosa is currently directing an episode of Netflix’s forthcoming “ReMastered” music docu-series; is producing Banker White and Anna Fitch’s SURVIVORS about Ebola in Sierra Leone as well as their HEAVEN THROUGH THE BACKDOOR; and, co-producing Petra Costa’s IMPEACHMENT. Other credits include the 2013 Sundance award-winning INEQUALITY FOR ALL and, the acclaimed Brazilian documentary, ELENA. Dosa graduated from Wesleyan University holds a joint Masters in Anthropology and International Development Economics from the London School of Economics.
7pm – Thursday, March 15th at the San Francisco Film School
Reserve Tickets Here!