User:Oscar Sanders

[[1]]BIOGRAPHY

Oscar Lambert Sanders was born on September 10, 1960 in the Bronx, NY to James and Ruby Sanders. Oscar is the youngest of three siblings (Barbara Rucker and James Sanders Jr). His childhood was uneventful and but on the other hand often fun-filled. He attended public schools in the Bronx: PS 140 and JHS 123 before graduating from The New York School Of Printing 1975. Oscar attended Queensborough Community College soon thereafter, before opting to travel as a musician (guitarist) throughout the United States and Europe instead of graduating from college. " I wasn't going to give up an experience of a lifetime-worldwide travel to remain academic, Oscar said at the time.

Oscar traveled throughout the United States and Europe in the 1980's performing with jazz violinist Billy Bang in music festivals, small to medium-sized clubs and venues to enjoyment of enthusiastic audiences. He also recorded three albums-two with Billy Bang under the Polygram (Soul Note) and one under ITM moniker. Sanders also performed live throughout the New York City are and several US cities in pop/original bands like the Harlem based Famaaja and Street Magic Band respectfully.

DISCOGRAPHY

The Fire From Within/Billy Bang Sextet (1985) Polygram Soul Note

Live at Carlos 1/Billy Bang Sextet(1987) Polygram Soul Note

Kisses/Das Pferd (year of release unknown) ITM Records

Filmmaking Biography

Splitting Hairs(2005) was the official selection of the Night Gallery Film Festival 2006 and Pocono Mountains Film Festival 2006, where it garnered a best short film and best original film nomination. Splitting Hairs has also screened on Blue Ridge Video On Demand, and ’First Friday Cinema’ @ BOHEMIO’s (TX), Art Evolution 2 Underground Arts Festival 2007 (CA).

In 2006, Malcolm Entertainment produced Know Who You’re Talking To(2006), about a desperate woman facing a lose-everything divorce who wants to change her circumstance. Know Who Your Talking To was an official selection in the Night Gallery Film Festival 2006, Magnolia International Film Festival 2007, ‘First Friday Cinema’@ BOHEMIO’s, Pumelo International Film Festival 2007(India), Art Evolution 2 Underground Arts Festival 2007, Readymade Film Festival 2007, Poconos Mountains Film Festival 2007, Cypress International Short Film Festival 2008 (Turkey), Exploding Cinema 2009 (UK).

In 2007, Malcolm Entertainment produced SPLITTING HAIRS 2.0: CASE COLD(2007), the sequel to SPLITTING HAIRS, about three homicide detectives, shuffled to the cold case squad to solve a year old double murder and mob cover up. It garnered Oscar Sanders the BEST DIRECTOR award at the Poconos Mountains Film Festival 2007. It was an official selection of independentfeatures Film Festival 2008, cFF08 Choice Award for Emerging Filmmakers: (out of competition)Oscar Sanders, "Splitting Hairs 2.0: Case Cold (NYC), Official Selection Pumelo International Film Festival 2008 “Splitting Hairs 2.0: Case Cold (India). Trailers for Splitting Hairs, Know Who You’re Talking To, and Splitting Hairs 2.0: Case Cold are official presentations in the Sierra Madre Film Festival 2007.

In 2009, ME produced WHY HIRE A KILLER? (2009), a psychological suspense film about two people with a past and one suffering from a medical phenomena called Phantom Death. WHY HIRE A KILLER? is an Official Selection and nominated for BEST FEATURE at the Pocono Mountain Film Festival 2009, NEW FILMMAKERS Night of New Urban Reality (Winter Series 2010) SPLITTING HAIRS 2.0: CASE COLD and Know Who You’re Talking To can be seen on The African American Channel. Our films have screened in : New York, Arizona, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Oregon, California, Alaska, Texas, New Zealand, India, United Kingdom, and Turkey. Oscar has directed a music videos for RocOpera titled Medieval Times, Cool, and Shake The City. Industrious Grind: Artist Coming Up Hosted By Shakur has won the Award of Merit at The Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood Fall 2010 and Best Music Video at the Pocono Mountains Film Festival 2010, Official Selection of the 2011 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival

In 2012, ME produced the documentary feature BILLY BANG: LONG OVER DUE was the Official Selection of the Dream Land International Festival 2012, New Filmmakers New York 2013, Official Selection of the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2013, The Peoples Film Festival 2013 (NY), Honorable Mention (Feature Documentary), LA New Wave Film Festival 2013, 3rd Place Best Feature Documentary Capital City Black Film Festival 2013 (TX), Best Feature Documentary Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2013 (UK-Wales)

Filmography: SPLITTING HAIRS (2005) Short Film KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO (2006) Short Film SPLITTING HAIRS 2.0: CASE COLD (2007) Feature Film (Distributed in Southeast Asia By Braun Media), On Sale On Demand at www.creatspace.com, and Amazon.com WHY HIRE A KILLER? (2009) Feature Film INDUSTRIOUS GRIND: Artists Coming Up (2010) Music Video Compilation Billy Bang: Long Over Due (2012) Feature Documentary Michael Carvin: No Excuses (2015) Feature Documentary

Music Video: Medieval Times, Cool :Good Money”, “Shake The City” Independent Production "Peace Is What We Seek” Independent Production "Ohh Girl" Independent Production Industrious Grind: Artist Coming Up Shadow Omar Chandler (2013) Mini Documentary Music Video Compilation Industrious Grind Colossal (2014)

Corporate/Commercial Videos

Andrew Frazier’s Power Breakfast/Newark. NJ (2012)

Books

Final Hearing (2014) Fiction Ice House: How Incarceration Made Me a Better Man (2015) A memoir