Kathe Sandler

Kathe Sandler (born May 11, 1959) 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 Best known for her feature documentary A Question of Color, Sandler notably explores prejudice, racial identity and the color caste system through the lens of the Black community.

Sandler also made a film called Remembering Thelma, about the dancer Thelma Hill, which received its debut at the 1982 New York Film Festival.

Sandler directed The Friends, a dramatic film based on Rosa Guy's book of the same name.

Sandler 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