Married Life

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Director

Ira Sachs

Bio

Married Life is the third feature from the writer and director Ira Sachs. His previous film, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Forty Shades of Blue, was released theatrically in the U.S by First Look Pictures, and sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams. His first feature, The Delta, was screened at the Toronto, Sundance and Rotterdam film festivals and distributed in the U.S. by Strand Releasing. Sachs was the recipient of the Emerging Talent Award at the 1997 Los Angeles Outfest, and was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1999. He was also a 2001 Fellow at the MacDowell Artist Colony, and has made several shorts, including Vaudeville and Lady (Sundance, 1995). Sachs was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee and has been a resident of New York City since 1988. IMDb profile

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.