Kanbar Institute of Film & Television
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Biography
Lamar Sanders
Associate Professor of Film and Television; Department Chair
B.F.A., New York. Screenwriter and film maker. His original screenplay Tickets to Ride (co-written with Mark Dickerman) was recently under option to Ted Turner's TNT Productions. Other recent screenplay assignments include Outlaw (20th Century Fox), Time in Advance (Universal), and Shadow Stalker (Light Year Productions). His play Mother Tongue was a finalist in the National Playwrights Conference, O'Neill Theater Center, 1986. Co-writer of an adaptation of the novel The Good Soldier Schweik (Lumen Films), and videotape documentary No Immediate Danger, which has won over 20 awards and was excerpted on 60 Minutes. His films and tapes have been screened at the Chicago Film Festival (Silver Hugo), Ann Arbor Film Festival, Baltimore Festival and Atlanta Film Festival and have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Canyon Cinema, Global Village, and Florida Institute for the Arts. Has also written screenplays, screen treatments, industrial films, and educational films for such producers and clients as Dan Wigutow, Robert Halmi, John Davis, the Xerox Corporation, Newsweek, Esquire, ITT, AT&T, and IBM. He is a lifetime member of the Writer's Guild of America.
