Peter Sanders

Known for

Directing

Born

August 19, 1969

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Sanders comes from a long line of filmmakers with a storied tradition in cinema who collectively have won five Oscars and two nominations. He holds a graduate degree in broadcast journalism from New York University and an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Vermont. Sanders' range of interests include penetrating portraits of artists (Altina, 2014); state-sponsored persecution and terror during a national holocaust (The Disappeared, 2008); and scientific achievements (On the Shoulders of Giants: The History of NYU Langone Orthopedics, 2023). His first feature-length film, The Disappeared (2008), was awarded a special prize for Best Documentary by the Documentary and Fiction Festival of Hollywood in 2007. Featured at the Montréal World Film Festival (2008), the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana (2008), and SANFIC, the International Film Festival of Santiago de Chile (2008), the film was shown and sponsored by the United Nations (2007). After its premiere at movie theaters in Argentina, Chile, and Canada, it was broadcast on The History Channel networks and The Documentary Channel. It has been on Netflix since 2008. Importantly, the film has been acquired by hundreds of academic institutions worldwide.