Faye Tsakas is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles and the co-founder of Wait A While Films. Her directing work has screened at South by Southwest Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, True/False Film Fest, AFI Fest, Camden International Film Festival, Champs-Élysées Film Festival, Rooftop Films, and Palm Springs International ShortFest, among others, and has been featured by The New York Times Op-Docs, The New Yorker, Vimeo Staff Picks, Nowness, Aeon, Short of the Week, and Le Cinéma Club.

She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023 and a Vimeo Breakout Creator in 2025. In 2024, she was a Film Independent Fast Track Producing Fellow and an American Film Institute Cinematography Intensive for Women Fellow. Most recently, she produced UNION COUNTY, which premieres at the Sundance Film Festival in 2026, and served as story producer and cinematographer on Amazon Studios’ forthcoming docuseries MURDER 101, which will also premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2026. She previously served as Vice President of Development & Production at Passage Pictures and as Director of Acquisitions & Production at FilmRise. Faye received her MFA in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University.