Production Diary

Day 3: out with Grandma by

my grandmother at dinner

I feel like shit. Drank too much over a long night. Dinner with my grandmother, then drinks with my boyfriend Boris. Then to a party at the Knickerbocker for the play Knickerbocker. Alessandro Nivola looking handsome in a beard. He passed on the role of “Erik” but somehow in the process we became friends. Later at a bar, I introduced myself to Martha Wainwright and asked her if we could use a song of her mom’s in the film.

Trying to write a follow-up email regarding our Kickstarter campaign and feeling uncomfortable/embarrassed about the steady stream of requests coming from me. There’s something very vulnerable about asking, asking, asking.

Speaking of, Chris came in and told me we are going to be kicked out of our borrowed production office for a week during our pre-production. It’s a state of being, this borrowed time, borrowed spaces, money begged.

Mostly, I just think I need to go home and get over last night’s drinking.


Ira Sachs

writer, director, blogger

Ira Sachs is a writer and director based in New York City. His films include Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997) and the 2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue. His most recent film, Last Address, a short work honoring a group of NYC artists who died of AIDS, has been added to the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA and played at the 2011 Venice BIennale. Sachs teaches in the Graduate Film department at NYU and is a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He is also the founder and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York, as well as the newly established Queer/Art/Mentorship, a program that pairs and supports mentorship between queer working artists in NYC.


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