Kathe Sandler is an award-winning independent filmmaker, educator, and scholar of Black feminist cultural studies. Dr. Sandler is president of Film Two Productions and completed a Ph.D in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Rutgers University in 2021. For her film work, she has received a 1996 Guggenheim fellowship and awards from the National Black Programming Consortium and the Black Filmmaker’s Hall of Fame. Dr. Sandler has directed the documentaries Remembering Thelma (1982), a profile of dancer Thelma Hill (1924-1977), and A Question of Color (1993), one of the first documentaries to interrogate the attitudes that many African Americans have about their own appearances.

The Kathe Sandler Collection contains 16mm film and sound outtakes, original negatives, pre-production elements, and interviews and transcripts from A Question of Color and Remembering Thelma. These elements represent a valuable sample of Black testimonies from the 1980s and early 1990s about experiences and attitudes regarding color.

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