Kathe Sandler

Kathe Sandler is a Guggenheim award-winning independent filmmaker, best known for her one-hour documentary film, "A Question Of Color" (1993), which explores color consciousness and internalized racism in the African American community. The film was the first Independent Television Service Program to receive a national airdate over PBS in 1994. "A Question Of Color" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, opened theatrically to glowing reviews at New York City Film Forum and received two Prized Pieces Awards from the National Black Programming Consortium. Sandler received First Prize in the Cross Cultural Category from the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame for her dramatic adaptation of Rosa Guys classic coming of age novel "The Friends" (1996.) "Remembering Thelma" (1982), her first independent documentary about the late dancer, teacher and mentor Thelma Hill, was screened at the NY Film Festival and received the Best Biography of a Dance Artist Award from the NY Dance Film and Video Festival. Last year, she completed a documentary for the Vera Institute of Justice entitled "Finding A Way: New Initiatives In Justice For Children".

Sandler is currently in pre-production on a new one-hour documentary film, "Black Feminism" which will provide a voice and a forum to the contemporary concerns of Black feminists, and examine the complex and somewhat obscured history of this social movement. She is co-writing this film with two noted Black feminist scholars, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw and Luke Charles Harris. Production is slated for Fall 1998.

Remembering Thelma
A film by Kathe Sandler, 1981, 15 min.
A lively profile of dance instructor and performer Thelma Hill containing rare footage of original Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and the New York Negro Ba...