Oscar Sanders

Oscar Sanders

Playwright/Award-winning Poet, Author, and Filmmaker

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• 2022 Best Live Performance Spoken Word Artist Forum Juried Arts Festival Bigoted Sadist

• 2020 Best Feature Script Script and Storyboard Showcase The Biggest Mistake

• 2019 Best Screen Play Pocono Mountains Film Festival The Biggest Mistake

• 2019 Best Empowerment Film Pocono Mountains Film Festival Exposing Politics: A Collection of Poetry

• 2016 NYCHA BRANCH NAACP J.U.S.T Read Award (Fiction/Final Hearing), 

• 2017 "Poet of the Year" Indie Author Legacy Awards (IALA)

• 2017 Best Music Documentary Michael Carvin: No Excuses

• 2017 Best Jazz History Documentary NY Jazz Film Festival Michael Carvin: No Excuses

• 2013 Best Feature Documentary Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (UK-Wales) Billy Bang: Long Over Due

• 2013 Best Documentary The Peoples Film Festival Billy Bang: Long Over Due

• 2012 Best Music Video Directors Festival of Shorts “Ohh Girl”

• 2010 Best Music Video Poconos Mountains Film Festival

• 2007 Best Director Poconos Mountains Film Festival 

Groups

Harlem Writers Guild 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

 

Judging

New York International Screen Play Awards 2016 , 2017, 2018 (Jury Member)

 

Committee Member/Hosting

Bronx Book Fair 2017, 2018. 2019, 2020 (Facilitator/Host-Voices in Poetry segment)     

 

Has Performed at:

• Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning  (NY)

• Bronx Library Center (NY)

• Brownsville Heritage House (NY)

• Fordham University (NY) 

• National Action Network Annual Convention 2018 (NY)

• Todd Art gallery @ Middle Tennessee State

• New York Poetry Festival 2017/2018 (NY)

• Indie Author Legacy Awards 2018 (MD)

• Bowery Poetry Club (NY)

• Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

• William Street Common  (PA)

• Blazing Star Cultural Center (NJ)

• Nuyorican Poets Cafe (NY)

• Shomburg Center fir Reasearch of Black Culture (NY)

 

Books:

• Final Hearing (2015)

• Exposing Politics: A Collection of Poetry (publish date 2020

• Ice House: How Incarceration Made Me a Better Man and The Philosophy of making America Whole Again -A Memoir/Self Help/Prison Reform novel (Publishing Date 2021)

• Final Hearing: Mission Pursuit (Publishing Date (2022)