American filmmaker (born 1965)

Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker. His first film was the short Lady (1993).

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
• 3 Awards and nominations
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Sachs was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His films include The Delta (1997), Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Married Life (2007), Keep the Lights On (2012), and Love Is Strange (2014). His newest film, Little Men, premiered at Sundance in 2016.

Sachs is Jewish and openly gay. 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 do*entary cinematographer and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, who bore them.

He appeared in the German do*entary 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

• Ira Sachs at IMDb