Raphaël Sandler
Editing
Biography
Raphaël Sandler is an editor and director based in Montreal. His directorial work is largely non-fiction and experimental, often featuring family and friends. Much of his work is made up of found footage and archival material. Sources of this material include national archives, familial archives, corporate archives, and youtube. Raphaël is a founder of the Neighbourhood Film Festival, a festival held jointly in Montreal, and Philadelphia. He also hosted a 178 episode run of a movie programming series called BPTV.
Known For
After a mysterious death, Kaujak and Sapa are separated despite being promised to each other at birth. With the help of spirit guides, efforts are made to restore harmony in this Arctic fairy tale set in an Inuit community.
Wrong Husband
It's a warm spring night, and the bee cowboys of Prince Edward Island begin rounding up their hives.
Blueberry Waggle Dance
Island Cowboy follows a Canadian beekeeper on Prince Edward Island during one of his last years of work. At the age of 68, Stan Sandler would like to retire, but impending threats to his island home's ecosystem threaten the future of the bees, and the health of the environment. The relationship between a beekeeper’s labour and the economy of the island’s blueberry crop is explored through a season of beekeeping, as we get an intimate look at Stan and the "bee cowboys".
Island Cowboy
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A short documentary about Sam and Jean, my grandparents, learning to live apart after more than 60 years together.
Sam & Jean
After experiencing a traumatic event in Igloolik (an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut), Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montréal. When Covid-19 lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest friend, eldest sister, Saqpinak. This extreme situation blurs the lines of both the fictional lives of the sisters, and the non-fiction lives of the film’s directors, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Carol Kunnuk, who play the sisters.