Desiree Akhavan

How to Die Alone

Mel is a broke, fat, Black JFK airport employee who's never been in love and forgotten how to dream, until an accidental brush with death catapults her on a journey to finally take flight and start living by any means necessary.

Release Date:2024-09-13

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:18

Tiny Beautiful Things

A floundering writer becomes a revered advice columnist while her own life is falling apart.

Release Date:2023-04-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:39

I Love That for You

A woman overcomes childhood leukemia to achieve her dream of becoming an on-air host at a home shopping network.

Release Date:2022-05-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:16

Monsterland

In this fantasy anthology series, encounters with mermaids, fallen angels and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in an attempt to repair their lives, ultimately showing there is a thin line between man and beast.

Release Date:2020-10-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:84

Ramy

Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community that thinks life is a constant test, his millennial friends who think life is full of endless possibilities, and a God who's always watching.

Release Date:2019-04-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:117

The Bisexual

Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality.

Release Date:2018-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Leila

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:25

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

Release Date:2018-07-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:969

Dykes, Camera, Action!

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another. Visually, this documentary comes to life on screen through compelling and intimate original interviews, intercut with emotionally-charged archival footage, photographs, ephemera, inspired music, and film clips.

Release Date:2018-06-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Tooth and Nail

A dysfunctional family reunites after the son, Matt, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Matt and his sister Kate make a pact. He agrees to give her his sperm for future use with a partner if she agrees to come out to the family that night.

Release Date:2018-03-11

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Creep 2

After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.

Release Date:2017-10-14

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Character:Sara

Vote Count:802

The Circuit

Newly arrived in town Nat and Gabe accept a dinner invitation from the volatile Hungarian Helene and her boorish husband Sasha. Whilst the other guests, ex-Bananarama member Marty, Angie, who 'makes bullets' and the supposedly suicidal Danny are affable enough, Nat and Gabe are shocked by their hosts' very public rows and Gabe's attempt at peace-making is awkwardly received. Nat is taken aback when virtual stranger Helene confides in her about Sasha's suspected infidelity and Gabe is rudely rebuffed when he tries to have a heart to heart with Sasha. After Helene physically attacks her husband the newcomers are desperate to leave but when Danny drops a bombshell Gabe is torn between responsibility and the easy way out.

Release Date:2016-08-25

Character:Angie

Vote Count:12

Flowers

Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.

Release Date:2016-04-25

Character:Carol

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:81

Appropriate Behavior

Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities.

Release Date:2015-03-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Shirin

Vote Count:91

Girls

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

Release Date:2012-04-15

Character:Chandra

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:379

Nose Job

15 year-old Iranian-American, Roya, hasn't grown into her features. Awkward and graceless, she spends her time fantasizing about becoming a famous model, giving mock interviews to herself. Roya wants nothing more than for her mother to tell her she's beautiful. Unfortunately, her mother has some very strict requirements.

Release Date:2011-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Slope

The Slope is a comedy that follows the lives of a lesbian couple navigating their way through modern-day Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Release Date:2010-08-06

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1