Cottage M is an independent production house focused on making films that push the boundaries of conventional forms in order to tell timeless stories.

Founder Shane Boris is an Oscar-winning and two-time Oscar-nominated film producer. 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.

Other credits include STRAY (Indie Spirt Award-nominee), THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN (SFFILM, Golden Gate Award); ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (Sundance, Best Directing), OLMO AND THE SEAGULL (Locarno, Jury Award), FUCK FOR FOREST (Warsaw, Best Documentary), and YOU'RE LOOKING AT ME LIKE I LIVE HERE AND I DON'T (Camden).

Shane is also the co-founder of Joon, a multidisciplinary incubator, and has worked as a strategist for non-profits, a writing consultant for authors, and a song lyricist for musicians. He has been a guest speaker at universities such as the Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia School of the Arts and for film programs such as the Sundance Institute and Film Independent. Shane received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.