Ira Sachs

Ira Sachs (b. 1965, Memphis, Tennessee), screenwriter and director, is a noted personality of New York's queer community. He is the founder of Queer/Art, a non-profit arts organization that supports LGBTQ artists across a variety of disciplines and generations. He graduated in literature and film theory from Yale University, and his work is part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA.

His movies, which generally touch on gay themes, include Delta (1997 – Another View, KVIFF), Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Married Life (2007), Keep the Lights On (2012 – Another View, KVIFF), and Love Is Strange (2014 – Horizons, KVIFF). He and scriptwriter Mauricio Zacharias are presently writing a film about the actor Montgomery Clift, to be produced by HBO.

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