Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs is a NYC-based filmmaker whose feature films include Passages, Little Men, Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On, and Forty Shades of Blue.  His short film Last Address, an elegy to a group of NYC artists who died of AIDS, has been included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney. A Guggenheim, Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow, Sachs is also the Founding Director of Queer|Art, an arts organization that provides mentorship and support for queer and trans artists in film, performance, literature and visual arts.  His newest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, with Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, premiered at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals in early 2025 and will be seen in cinemas in the fall.