Ira Sachs

spirit-awards-excerptThe nominations for the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards were announced today at the W Hotel in Hollywood by Jenny Slate and Edgar Ramirez. Leading the pack in nominations are American Honey and Moonlight, which garnered six nominations each. The drama Manchester by the Sea received five noms while the biopic Jackie got four.

Logline: An old married couple’s relationship is strained when one of them loses his job, forcing them to move in with their separate families.

Logline: At the death of the hippie dream, in the aftermath of Charles Manson’s dune buggie hit squads and Altemont, a diverse group of freaks and hustlers congregate around Los Angeles in a strange danse macabre of music, film, sex and drugs, looking for some meaning in their pathetic lives.