Name Kathe Sandler Role Film director | Education Rutgers University Movies A Question of Color | |
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Kathe Sandler (born May 11, 1959) is an award-winning filmmaker. She won a 1996 Guggenheim Award and two Prized Pieces Awards from the National Black Programming Consortium. She also received two fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts for filmmaking.
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Early life
Sandler was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Joan Sandler, former Community Education Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Alvin Sandler, a painter and graphic artist. She attended American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. Her sister is Eve Sandler.
Career
Most known for her feature documentary, A Question of Color, Sandler became known for exploring prejudice, racial identity and the color caste system through the lens of the Black community.
Sandler also made a film called Remembering Thelma, which was about the dancer Thelma Hill, debuting at the 1982 New York Film Festival.
Sandler directed The Friends, a dramatic film based on Rosa Guy's book of the same name.
She is a doctoral student in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
Personal life
On January 7, 1984, she married Luke Charles Harris at the home of Evelyn Neal in Manhattan.