Robin Sanders (b. 2003, Chicago) is a filmmaker, editor, and visual storyteller. Her work spans documentary filmmaking, broadcast production, podcast editing, and digital design. She cares about amplifying underrepresented voices, crafting compelling visual narratives, and using media as a tool for advocacy and connection. Whether producing intimate documentary work or designing broadcast graphics for national audiences, she brings a personal and intentional approach to every project.
Her documentary Between Sentences won the Audience Choice Award at Notre Dame's 37th Annual Student Film Festival. The film is her own story. A senior at the University of Notre Dame waits for her father's release on October 30, 2025, after twenty-two years of incarceration, reflecting on how life is shaped by absence and the long aftermath of prison. As she prepares to meet him again, she revisits the impact of the criminal legal system on her family, including a stepfather who spent twenty-one years incarcerated and whom she first met at thirteen. Through intimate memories and present-day anticipation, the film shows how incarceration continues to live inside a family long after a sentence is served.
This is the American family story we don't talk about.