Ira Sachs is a filmmaker based in NYC. His work includes Married Life, The Delta and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue. His most recent film, Last Address, a short work honoring a group of NYC artists who died of AIDS, has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA, and was on view at this year’s Venice Biennale. Sachs teaches in the MFA Department of Film at NYU and is a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He is also the founder and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York, as well as the newly established Queer/Art/Mentorship. Presently, he is finishing editing Keep the Lights On, a feature film about a decade-long relationship between two men in New York City. For more on the film, go to keepthelightsonfilm.com.

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