Biography
Sasha Wortzel is an artist, filmmaker, educator, and activist, based in New York City. She is the writer, director, and producer of Happy Birthday, Marsha! with Tourmaline. She and Tourmaline raised over $25,000 on Kickstarter to fund the film.Wortzel co-created the documentary We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite. The film concerns the community efforts to stop the eviction of the Starlite Lounge, the oldest black gay bar in Brooklyn. It was a highlight of the 2014 New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival.Wortzel's interactive artwork 42 Butter Lane (2011) was included in the 2014 exhibition Roaming House at A.I.R. Gallery. The exhibition, curated by Mira Schor, sought to update the 1972 feminist art installation Womanhouse.
Filmography
all 11
Movies 11
Director 10
Producer 1
How to Carry Water (2023)
This is an Address (2020)
We Have Always Been on Fire (2018)
Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018)
Atlantic is a Sea of Bones (2017)
Fucking Different XXY (2014)
We Came to Sweat (2014)
Grit & Grind (2013)
Paint It Again (2010)
I Guess I'm Not Going to Get to Vegas (2009)
Sass Squat (2009)
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GenderFemale
Birth PlaceFlorida, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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