Ira Sachs 

Ira Sachs is a NYC-based filmmaker whose feature films include Peter Hujar’s Day, Passages, Frankie, Little Men, Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On  and Forty Shades of Blue. A Rockefeller, Guggenheim, MacDowell, and Yaddo Fellow, Sachs’s work is held in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney.  He is also the Founding Director of Queer|Art, an arts organization built to support mentorship for LGBTQ+ artists across disciplines and born out of the recognition of a generation of artists and audiences lost to the AIDS crisis.