Kathe Sandler

Kathe Sandler is a Guggenheim award-winning independent filmmaker

from New York City. She is best known for her ground-breaking one-hour

documentary film, A QUESTION OF COLOR (1993), which explores ""color

consciousness"" and internalized racism in the African American

community. A QUESTION OF COLOR was the first Independent Television

Service program to receive a national airdate over PBS in 1994. The film

premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, opened theatrically to

glowing reviews at New York City's Film Forum and received two Prized

Pieces Awards from the National Black Programming Consortium.

Recently, Sandler received First Prize in the Cross Cultural Category from

the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame for her half-hour dramatic adaptation of

Rosa Guy's classic novel, The Friends. This film concerns the friendship

between a newly arrived Carribean immigrant girl in Harlem in the l950s

and her African-American classmate. Sandler's first independent

documentary film, REMEMBERING THELMA (1982), was screened at the NY

Film Festival and received Best Biography of a Dance Artist Award from

the NY Dance and Video Film Festival; and she has just completed a

documentary for the Vera Institute of Justice entitled FINDING A WAY: NEW

INITIATIVES IN JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN. She is currently developing a

feature-length film based on The Friends, and beginning a new documentary

about race and gender.