Deidre Backs
- Additional Crew
- Producer
- Transportation Department
Deidre worked at Alexander Payne's company as the assistant to the producer on The Descendants, and after transitioning to production, she worked with Payne again on Nebraska. Her first foray into independent film was as an associate producer on Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter, with David & Nathan Zellner. For a few years, Backs served under the producer Daniel Lupi on films such as Spielberg's Bridge of Spies and Ready Player One, as well as Jordan Peele's US. She produced Erica Tremblay's short, Little Chief, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and is a producer on Erica's first feature Fancy Dance. Backs is the recipient of the 2021 Sundance Institute Mark Silverman honor as a Sundance Creative Producing Lab fellow and is a 2022 Women at Sundance fellow.