A Class Apart

Carlos Sandoval was co-producer/director of the documentary Farmingville, which won numerous awards and honors including the Sundance Special Jury Prize and the Council on Foundation’s Henry Hampton Award. A lawyer and writer, Sandoval’s work has appeared in The New York Times and other publications. Sandoval worked on immigration and refugee affairs as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, and as a program officer for The Century Foundation. Of Mexican-American and Puerto Rican descent, Sandoval grew up in Southern California and is a graduate of Harvard College and of the University of Chicago Law School.

Peter Miller has worked as a producer on several of Ken Burns’s films including the series The War, the Jazz series, and the Peabody Award-winning Frank Lloyd Wright. His own work includes the just-released Sacco and Vanzetti, The Internationale (Oscar short-list), and Passin’ It On (shown on P.O.V., winner of over 20 film festival prizes). Miller was a producer on Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award-winning American Dream, and has worked on dozens of other historical and social issue documentaries.