Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

. His first film was the short ''Lady'' (1993).

Biography

Sachs was born in

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

. His films include '' The Delta'' (1997), '' Forty Shades of Blue'' (2005), '' Married Life'' (2007), '' Keep the Lights On'' (2012), ''

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'' (2014), and ''

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'' (2016). His newest film, ''

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'', premiered at Cannes in 2019. His next film, '' Passages'', is set to be released in 2022. Sachs is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

and

openly gay Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Framed and debated as a privacy issue, coming out of ...

. He described '' Keep the Lights On'' as semi-autobiographical film. In January 2012, Sachs married artist Boris Torres in New York city, a few days before their twins were born. Sachs and Torres co-parent the children with documentary cinematographer and filmmaker

Kirsten Johnson Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is mostly known for her camera work on several well-known feature-length documentaries such as '' Citizenfour'' and '' The Oath''. In 2016, she released ...

, who bore them. He appeared in the German documentary ''Wie ich lernte die Zahlen zu lieben/How I Learned to Love the Numbers'' (2014) by Oliver Sechting and Max Taubert.

Filmography

As a Director

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sachs, Ira 1965 births Living people American male screenwriters LGBT Jews LGBT screenwriters People from Memphis, Tennessee LGBT people from Tennessee American gay writers Jewish American writers English-language film directors Film directors from Tennessee Screenwriters from Tennessee LGBT film directors 21st-century American Jews