Ira Sachs was born in Memphis in 1965. His feature films include Passages, Frankie, Little Men, Love Is Strange, Keep the Lights On, and Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the 2005 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. A recipient of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, Sachs is the Founding Director of Queer|Art, a non-profit that provides support for LGBTQ+ artists across disciplines and generations. He lives in New York City with his husband Boris Torres and their two kids, Viva and Felix, next door to their moms, Tabitha Jackson and Kirsten Johnson.
Ira Sachs was born in Memphis in 1965. His feature films include Passages, Frankie, Little Men, Love Is Strange, Keep the Lights On, and Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the 2005 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. A recipient of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, Sachs is the Founding Director of Queer|Art, a non-profit that provides support for LGBTQ+ artists across disciplines and generations. He lives in New York City with his husband Boris Torres and their two kids, Viva and Felix, next door to their moms, Tabitha Jackson and Kirsten Johnson.
