Education
After Cambridge, Sanders studied film at the Slade School of Fine Art under Thorold Dickinson.
After Cambridge, Sanders studied film at the Slade School of Fine Art under Thorold Dickinson.
His first feature film Painted Angels was released in 1997. In the 1980s he made documentaries for television which included Then When the World Changed (1983) for Channel 4, co-directed with cameraman Roger Deakins. Sanders" feature film Painted Angels starring Kelly McGillis and Brenda Fricker was about the lives of prostitutes in the Wild West.
lieutenant premièred at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.