Kathe Sandler | |
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| Born | May 11, 1959 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Notable work | A Question of Color (1993) |
| Relatives | Eve Sandler (sister) |
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.
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.
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.
On January 7, 1984, she married Luke Charles Harris at the home of Evelyn Neal in Manhattan.