Kathe Sandler
Kathe Sandler is a 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.
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.Filmography
- Finding a Way: New Initiative in Justice for Children
- 1982: Remembering Thelma
- 1993: A Question of Color
- 1996: The Friends
- ''When and Where We Enter: Stories of Black Feminism''