Peter Sandmark

Biography

Peter Sandmark is the Executive Director of MediaNet, a non-profit independent film centre in Victoria, since 2005.  Over the past ten years he has also been a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria, teaching courses in the Fine Arts Faculty such as The Economy of Art and Culture, The History of Comic Book Art, Creative Being, and Art and Digital-media Technology.  He has taught Video Art, and Comic Art at the Vancouver Island School of Art, and was a part-time film production and cinematography teacher at Concordia University, between 1985 and 2004.  Sandmark has directed over 20 short films, with works showing in numerous festivals, and on TV, and also draws a comic strip, ROACHTOWN, for the Fernwood Village Vibe paper.