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My Take
Ira Sachs is a filmmaker I return to when I want intimacy over spectacle. A Memphis native with a Yale education, he makes small, exacting dramas about love, aging, and the quiet erosions of ordinary life. His Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship signal serious craft, but the films themselves are what convince me. Love Is Strange and Little Men show a director willing to sit with tenderness and disappointment without ever raising his voice. I trust artists who choose honesty over fireworks, and Sachs is one of the steadiest practitioners of that quiet, durable kind of American independent cinema.
Overview
Ira Sachs (born November 21, 1965) is an American filmmaker. Sachs started his career directing short films such as Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993) before making his feature film debut with The Delta (1996). Sachs later won acclaim for his dramatic independent films Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Keep the Lights On (2012), Love Is Strange (2014), Little Men (2016), and Passages (2023).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ira Sachs
- Name (Japanese)
- アイラ・サックス
- Reading
- あいら・さっくす
- Born
- November 21, 1965 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Snake
- Origin
- Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film producer / writer / film screenwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Yale University
Awards & achievements
- 2005 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award
- 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.