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IRA SACHS - (Director/ Co-writer)
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Ira Sachs was born in Memphis in 1965. His first feature, 'The Delta' (1997), was
screened at Sundance, Toronto, and Rotterdam, and was distributed in the US by
Strand Releasing. Sachs was the recipient of the Emerging Talent award at the
1997 LA Outfest, and was awarded a 1999 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
He was also a 2001 Fellow at the MacDowell Artist Colony, and has made sever-
al shorts, including 'Vaudeville and Lady' (Sundance ‘95).
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With FORTY SHADES OF BLUE, Sachs participated in the Screenwriter's Lab at the Sundance
Institute. He is presently at work on 'Marriage', a suspense film set in San Francisco in the 1940s,
written in collaboration with Oren Moverman (co-writer on 'Jesus's Son' and Todd Haynes' up-
coming Bob Dylan project, 'I'm not There').
Set in the world of Memphis music, FORTY SHADES OF BLUE confronts many of the issues that
have been central to director Ira Sachs’ work in the past. As in his first feature 'The Delta' (1997)
- in which a half-black, half-Vietnamese gay man living in Memphis was at the centre of the story - Sachs continues to be interested in people who exist both inside and outside of their own en-
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