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Sanders studied film at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts, graduating in 2002.
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After moving to Hollywood, his first job as an editor was on the reality television show The Biggest Loser—a job that he quit when another FSU alumnus, writer-director Barry Jenkins, made his 2008 film Medicine for Melancholy, which Sanders moved to San Francisco to edit (In 2014, Sanders thanked Jenkins for "saving me from a career in reality television") When Medicine for Melancholy premiered at the 2008 South by Southwest film festival, Sanders met director Lynn Shelton and soon after headed to Seattle to edit her film Humpday, which was released in 2009. Following the release of Medicine for Melancholy and Humpday, Sanders was named one of Filmmaker Magazine"s "25 New Faces in Independent Film" in 2009.
He worked at the Sundance Institute"s Directors" Laboratory while editing his next project, the 2010 film The Freebie.
Sanders also edited Mark and Jay Duplass"s film The Do-Deca-Pentathlon, which was released in 2012, four years after it had originally been filmed. Sanders met Destin Daniel Cretton at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and in 2012 Cretton hired Sanders to edit Short Term 12, a feature-length adaption of Cretton"s 2009 short film of the same name.
After Short Term 12, he edited Laggies, his fourth collaboration with Lynn Shelton, and the first season of Togetherness, an Home Box Office series created by Mark and Jay Duplass. He lives in Los Los Angeles
