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MIRIAM SACHS

DIRECTOR
Lived and Loved

Miriam graduated summa cum laude from USC film school in December 2020 with a BFA in Film & TV Production and a minor in Screenwriting. For her senior thesis, Miriam wrote and sound-designed an LGBT+, coming-of-age musical called Spit It Out, Margot! (2021). It tells the story of a young girl with a stutter who falls in love with her speech therapist. Miriam’s script was one of four selected for production in her class of sixty. The film was an SCA First Look Selection, and it screened at the USC Comedy Festival in April 2021. Many of her shorts have won awards, including Spoons (2015), A Student Named Art (2016), and Tangerines (2017). Since 2017, Miriam has worked for Dan Halsted at Manage-ment, providing fast and thorough script coverage for the management company.

Miriam’s love of film started at an early age. Using a tiny flip video camera, she made horror movies and music videos with her neighbors and friends. She penned poems, short stories, and scripts in composition notebooks. In high school, Miriam spent four years in her school’s Video Production and Broadcast Journalism programs. She became News Director her senior year and won several national awards for their station, Mustang Morning News.

At USC, Miriam studied all aspects of the craft, from producing to lighting. In addition to creating her own films, she gaffed, sound designed, assistant directed, and production designed multiple peers’ projects, working on award-winning shorts and web series across genres. Miriam is a Swiss Army knife freelance filmmaker with a range of skills from pre-production through post. She uses her knowledge and expertise to give back to the community. In 2019, Miriam taught film at the nonprofit, Get Lit - Words Ignite, developing curriculum, overseeing the media education program, and instructing over thirty underserved high school students in screenwriting, directing, and production. 

Miriam’s artistic endeavors extend beyond filmmaking. She has written and performed spoken word poetry across LA and beyond, presenting her work in New York, Atlanta and more. From 2014-2016, Miriam ran a concert series called In-House Arts, booking musicians, poets, and comedians who performed in a different house each month to an audience of 50+ people. Her love of music, visual art, and the written word all inform her filmmaking. Film is the merging of many art forms, and it is enriched by a commitment to and appreciation of these forms. 

Miriam is currently working on her first feature script. It is the tale of a timid scientist who gets possessed by a sentient moon, causing her to become more and more aggressive until she destroys all of humanity--and enjoys it. In her free time, Miriam goes on long bike rides and practices meditation. // miriamsachs.com