The Last Season
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2013
Logline
Amid the frontier of Oregon's matsutake mushroom-hunting camps, two former soldiers' lives intersect. An odyssey into the woods, into the memory of war and survival, The Last Season tells a story of family from this woodland realm. Previously titled Roots and Webs.
Sara Dosa
Director
Sara Dosa is an Indie-Spirit Award nominated documentary director and a Peabody Award-winning producer. As a producer, she recently produced the Peabody and Emmy nominated SURVIVORS about Ebola in Sierra Leone (2018 IDFA / POV); co-produced AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (2017 Sundance / Paramount) and THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY (2019 Sundance / Netflix); and, produced Peabody award-winning AUDRIE & DAISY (2016 Sundance / Netflix Originals). Dosa also produced the VR piece MELTING ICE (Sundance 2016) as well as the short film BORDER PATROL BODY SLAM for NY Times OpDocs in 2013. Her first feature as a director, THE LAST SEASON, which tells the story of two former soldiers turned wild mushroom hunters, made its World Premiere at SFIFF 2014, taking home a Golden Gate Award, and was nominated for the Indie Spirit “Truer than Fiction Award.” Most recently, Dosa directed an Emmy nominated episode of the Netflix music docu-series REMASTERED about Johnny Cash's 1970 concert for Richard Nixon; and recently premiered her third feature as a director THE SEER & THE UNSEEN at the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival where the film won the McBaine Bay Area Documentary Prize. THE SEER & THE UNSEEN was called “Captivating, strong and surprising” by The Hollywood Reporter and “Elegant, deft and inquisitive” by Variety, and “Sublime” by The Playlist. The film went onto its International Premiere at Hot Docs and is touring the international festival circuit. In 2018, DOC NYC named Dosa to the inaugural “40 under 40” class of documentary filmmakers to watch and was also named to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Documentary Branch. She graduated from Wesleyan University holds a joint Masters in Anthropology and International Development Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Josh Penn
Producer
Josh Penn is an Academy-Award nominated producer with The Department of Motion Pictures whose films have won over 100 awards internationally. His films include the four-time Academy Award nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild and Contemporary Color. He also executive-produced Patti Cake$ (Sundance 2016) and co-produced SXSW-winning The Great Invisible.