Mirta Desir is the recipient of multiple prestigious grants and awards for her writing and directing, including the coveted Lynn Shelton Grant, the Caucus Foundation Grant, and the New York Women in Film & Television Award. Her latest short film, JEAN & I, was awarded the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Grand Prize for the East Coast for 2024-2025.
Her manuscript, SAVING JUDE, recently won the Penguin Random House Publishing / WNDB Revisions Workshop grant.
Mirta holds a BA and a BS from Syracuse University, a Juris Doctor from Loyola University and has an MFA in Directing from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College.
Mirta is obsessed with (or passionate about) stories – both narrative and non-fiction – about the layered struggles within the human spirit. This can be seen in both her narrative and documentary work.
She can be found on Bluesky and Instagram: @mirtadesir