Kathe Sandler
# 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

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
