Set against the spectacular landscape of Iceland, THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN follows Ragnhildur "Ragga" Jónsdóttir, a grandmother and "seer" who has the ability to communicate directly with a parallel realm of elves -- invisible spirits of nature that over half of Iceland believes in. As a respected seer, government officials, businesses and individuals ask Ragga to consult the elves to learn where they can and cannot develop land. But not everyone listens. The elves enlist Ragga to help save an ecologically important lava field set to be razed by road construction -- just one of the many needless development projects spurred by Iceland's sensational financial meltdown in 2008. THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN follows Ragga's fight to protect this elfin landscape, exploring the human relationships to nature, economy and the enchanting power of belief.
Sara Dosa is an Indie Spirit Award-nominated doc director and Peabody award-winning producer whose interests lay in telling character-driven stories about the human relationship to ecology and economy. Her first feature as a director, "The Last Season", which tells the story of two former soldiers turned wild mushroom hunters, took home a Golden Gate Award at its SFIFF 2014 premiere, and was nominated for the Indie Spirit Truer than Fiction Award. Recently, Dosa co-directed an Emmy nominated episode of the Netflix music series Re-Mastered about Johnny Cash's 1970 concert for Richard Nixon. Dosa's third feature as a director, "The Seer & The Unseen," premiered in 2019, winning awards at a number of festivals, including the McBaine Bay Area Documentary Prize at its SFIFF premiere. "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. As a producer, she produced the Peabody winning "Audrie & Daisy" (2016 Sundance / Netflix Originals); and the Peabody and Emmy-nominated "Survivors" (2018 IDFA / POV). Dosa co-produced the Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" (2019 Sundance / Netflix Originals) and "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" (2017 Sundance / Paramount). In 2018, DOC NYC named Dosa to the inaugural "40 under 40" class of documentary filmmakers to watch and was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
