Ira Sachs

Director

“I'll go to Vancouver and you can talk to a twenty-year-old about Hou Hsiao-hsien and here in New York, I don't know anyone except people really seriously into the business that have even heard of Hou Hsiao-hsien. You're right, so much industry and media is created here, but all that that's really indicative of is how limited is that perspective, now.”

Biography

Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997), and the 2005 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize–winning Forty Shades of Blue. His most recent film, Last Address, is a short work honoring a group of New York City artists who died of AIDS. Sachs is the founder and cocurator of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York, as well as its newly established program that supports mentorship among queer working artists. –Sundance Film Festival