Faye Tsakas is a filmmaker based between LA and NY. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema. Her work documents strains of contemporary American culture in the context of late-stage capitalism, looking at youth & beauty culture, excess, and ritual − shifting away from the patriarchal gaze. Her latest film, Christmas, Every Day, premiered at SXSW Film Festival domestically and Hot Docs internationally, taking the special jury award, and was released by NYTimes Op-Docs. Her film Alpha Kings, co-directed with Enrique Pedraza-Botero, won the Grand Jury Prize for Social Commentary at AFI Fest and is now available to stream on The New Yorker and Vimeo Staff Picks. Her films have also screened at True/False Film Festival, IFFR, Camden Film Festival, Rooftop Films, Champs Elysées Film Festival, and Palm Springs ShortFest, among others. She is currently developing her first feature documentary with A24.

Faye was a Film Independent Producing Fellow and is presently producing Adam Meeks’ feature debut with Seaview Productions. She is currently Story Producing a forthcoming docu-series for Amazon Studios. She previously served as VP Development & Production for LA based Passage Pictures, overseeing development for the company alongside its CEO, and was Director of Acquisitions & Production for FilmRise, where she championed the release of award winning films, including Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Faye has served on multiple juries and industry panels, and participated as an executive decision-maker in the IFP Project Forum, the Hot Docs Project Forum, and the Sheffield DocFest project MeetMarket for several consecutive years, and is a Programmer for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. 

She received a BA in American Studies from Cornell University and an MFA in Documentary Film & Video at Stanford University. She was an AFI Cinematography Intensive for Women fellow in 2024.