Award-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Sanders holds a graduate degree in broadcast journalism from New York University and an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Vermont. His feature-length film, THE DISAPPEARED (2008), was awarded a special prize for best documentary by the 2007 Documentary and Fiction Festival of Hollywood. Featured at several international festivals, it was chosen by the government of Argentina to represent the country at a conference on Human Rights sponsored by the United Nations. After its premiere at movie theaters in Argentina, Chile, and Canada, it was broadcast on The History Channel networks, including History International and History Español. Currently it is also being aired on The Documentary Channel and available through Netflix. Sanders’ wide range of interests include penetrating portraits of writers and artists, the latest of which is ALTINA (2012), the story of a wealthy New Yorker who invented the Harlequin glasses in the 1930s and created a unique brand of functional sculpture she called “chairacters.” He is CEO of Eight Twelve Productions, a company he founded in 2006.
