Rachel Sanders is a Vancouver writer and photographer with a passion for the colourful and quirky. She writes for both print and radio, contributing regularly to a number of local and national media sources, including CBC Radio and Exclaim! magazine. She graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where she wrote for several local publications and co-hosted a morning drive-time show on the campus radio station, CJSR. After leaving Edmonton, she spent two years in Japan where she taught English and worked as cinematographer on the short film “Diary of an Alien” for Codependent Films, which won the Bronze Award at the Tokyo Video Festival and was nominated for Best Short at Hot Docs. Since 1999 she has lived in Vancouver, where she freelances for a variety of corporate, PR and media clients. She co-wrote and worked as stills photographer on Codependent Films’ most recent short, “Swimming Lessons,” which screened at the Vancouver Film Festival in 2006 and was nominated for Best Short at the Hollywood Film Fest. She recently produced her first long documentary for the CBC Radio program Inside The Music about the iconoclastic Canadian folk band Fraser and DeBolt. She is currently producing a series of short music history documentaries for CBC Radio 3 called The Birth of Canadian Indie.
You can find her on Twitter at @sandersrachel
Or email her at rachel(at)rachelsanders(dot)com