Jon Sanders (born 1 April 1943 in

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) is a

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. His first feature film '' Painted Angels'' was released in 1997. After

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, Sanders studied film at the

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under

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. As a sound recordist he worked on From ''Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China'' which won the 1981 Academy Award for best feature-length documentary. In the 1980s he made documentaries for television which included ''Then When the World Changed'' (1983) for Channel 4, co-directed with cameraman

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Directing

Sanders' feature film ''Painted Angels'' starring

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and

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was about the lives of prostitutes in the Wild West. It premièred at the

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