Past Mentor: Bob Sandler

Bob Sandler admits his professional career can be described as going from the sublime to the ridiculous. He wrote the screenplay for Cannibal Girls, starring Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin, and edited the Governor-General’s Award winning non-fiction book Northrop Frye on Shakespeare. He has written extensively for television, as staff writer on children’s shows (Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, Sharon Lois and Bram’s The Elephant Show) and adult dramas (Street Legal and Traders). His production company, Creative Anarchy Inc., established in 1997, has made the pioneering documentary/reenactment series on crime called Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science, which aired for five seasons on Discovery Canada and TLC in the U.S. He travelled to time zones around the world to film the martial arts series Deadly Arts, the doc series Extreme Clergy and the one-off Real Voodoo, and most recently the series My Pet’s Gone Viral for Animal Planet Canada, UK, Asia-Pacific. He also produced the volunteer-made short RevueCinema: The Big “100” to mark the Roncesvalles theatre’s centennial.