His work includes Married Life (2007), The Delta (1997), and Forty Shades of Blue, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. A recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship for Media Arts, Sachs is an Adjunct Professor in the MFA Program in Film at New York University, and is a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. His most recent short film, Last Address, premiered at the 2010 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, and has been shown at White Columns, Tate Modern, the Whitney, and the New Museum. Sachs is presently working on two films, The Goodbye People, co-written with Oren Moverman and adapted from the fiction of screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert, and Keep the Lights On, an autobiographical film set in New York during the last decade. He is the founder and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly series held at the IFC Center in New York.