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Eva Saks graduated from Yale College (Honors in Theater Directing), Yale Law School (Yale Law Journal), and NYU Film School (Chair's Award). She has directed and developed new American plays, cast theater/film/television, and worked in rock and roll. She is currently developing several family-friendly projects with Jane Startz Productions. Eva is a proud member of the WGA.
Eva Saks is currently developing a TV series for Disney entitled GLAD RAGS. She recently directed a spot for McCann Erickson starring Alexandra Chando of AS THE WORLD TURNS and won the NATPE NextGen TV Award for her short KYLIE GOLDSTEIN, ALL AMERICAN. She also just finished her first teen project, a comic 35mm spot, VALENTINE'S DAY, for Time Warner Cable, promoting AIDS awareness for at-risk inner city teens. This spot, which Saks wrote/directed/produced, received the prestigious Tony Cox Award from Cable Positive, a national associated of broadcasters and cable systems. Saks partnered on this project with the Adolescent AIDS Program of New York's Montefiore Hospital. Saks has written, produced and directed live-action comic segments for SESAME STREET on the alphabet, literacy, nutrition, rhyming and food. She produced and directed three documentary segments and a kids' music video about children and doctors/health care for Sony Wonder's ELMO VISITS THE DOCTOR homevideo/DVD. Festivals around the world are now presenting programs consisting of Saks' films for children. Saks has also worked for Nickelodeon. As writer and director, Saks does live-action, animation, and puppets.
Saks' 1st documentary, FAMILY VALUES, screened at Sundance, Telluride and Tribeca, and at over 100 festivals nationally and internationally. It is distributed on New Video/Docurama's DVD collection, "Best of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival" and is available via Netflix. Awards to FAMILY VALUES include a Student Academy Award, the Planet Out Grand Prize, a NYSCA Grant, Special Jury Mention at Tribeca, Best Short Documentary at St. Louis International, Honorable Mention at Clermont-Ferrand, Best Short Doc at the Magnolia, and the Jury Prize at Copenhagen GL Film Festival. Saks followed up FAMILY VALUES with her doc short A PIZZA MAN, which portrayed a proud pizzamaker from El Salvador who lives in New York City and makes Italian pizza at the California Pizza Kitchen. Screenings of A PIZZA MAN include the New York Latino Film Festival, the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Pioneer/Two Boots Theater, etc.
Her most recent documentary short, KYLIE GOLDSTEIN ALL AMERICAN (about a Chinese adoption), is currently screening around the world, including the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, BAM, San Francisco International Film Festival, the Walker Arts Center; also Europe, Scandinavia, Australia. KYLIE GOLDSTEIN awards include the NATPE NextGen TV Award and Lunafest "Best by Student". Eva is developing this short into a longform entitled ALL AMERICAN.
Previously Saks wrote, produced and directed the award-winning 35mm trilogy about New York City after September 11th, TRIO (consisting of CONFECTION, COLORFORMS, and DATE). For children and adults, these shorts are currently airing on the Independent Film Channel, TV Tokyo, Swedish TV and Italian TV and continue to screen at film festivals and museums around the world They have received numerous awards, including the Warner Bros. Pictures Production Fund Award; the Caucus for TV Producers, Writers & Directors Award; BAFTA Prize for Best Short at Mill Valley; the BAMMIE Award at BAM for Best Live Action Short; Audience Choice awards two years in a row at Stony Brook Film Festival; the ZOINKS Toy Store award for Best Family Film, the Ojai Film Festival Finishing Fund Award; and many others.
Saks has worked extensively as a freelance writer, journalist and editor. Her writing for television includes SESAME STREET and work airing on IFC, Discovery, etc. At Yale College, she was the Editor-in-Chief of The New Journal and covered the World Series for the Yale Daily News. She was tapped for Yale's senior humor society, The Pundits (founded 1884) and Manuscript (senior literary society). She has also been published in the Riverdale Press, Casting Call, Film Festival Today, Raritan Quarterly, the Johns Hopkins Theater Journal, etc. As an editor, she has edited for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Economics. She co-founded the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities with novelist Lawrence Douglas and Harvard's Janet Halley. Saks' best-known article, "Representing Miscegenation Law," has been reprinted (from Raritan) in collections published by both Oxford University Press and New York University Press. It is taught across the country.
