About Sandra
Sandra Guardado has been a documentary editor primarily and an occasional producer and writer on short and feature length documentaries and various televisions shows for 28 years.
Recently, Sandra has worked on a mental health series for Wyoming PBS called State of Mind (which has won several Heartland regional Emmys); a feature length documentary The Quietest Year exploring noise as a public health concern; and a public television documentary Fossil Country profiling the quirky world of fossil hunters in Wyoming.
Other projects have included editing a feature length independent documentary Becoming Leslie profiling Leslie Cochran, a homeless man and a noted celebrity in Austin, Texas (SXSW Film Festival); El Susto profiling the public health advocates taking on Big Soda to curb the public health crisis in Mexico; and American Gadfly about three teenagers running the campaign of 89-year old Senator Mike Gravel in his quixotic run in the 2020 presidential election (Ashland Film Festival).
In the past, Sandra was coordinating producer for an American Experience documentary George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire (winning a national Emmy for research and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival). Sandra also edited and co-produced Last Man Standing on a contentious political race in Texas for the POV series (SXSW Film Festival) and co-edited When I Rise about Barbara Conrad, an African-American opera singer and her small part in the civil rights struggle, for Independent Lens (SXSW Film Festival/Hot Docs).
Sandra has also worked on reality TV shows, such as Shipping Wars, My 600lb Life, and Quints by Surprise. She has edited two documentaries for Rooster Teeth’s subscriber channel, Connected and Becoming Jessica Nigri. As well, Sandra was editor on the CNN Original Series High Profits on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, which garnered an Emmy nomination. She was also part of the editing team for the Hulu series Small Business Revolution: Main Street on revitalizing small towns.