Sándor Lau was born in 1975 in South Bend, Indiana, USA, and grew up in Elizabeth, the pearl of Colorado's eastern plains. Although he was an honor student in school, his teachers always complained that he asked too many questions. He managed to become an Eagle Scout without anyone detecting that he was faltering on the "reverent" point in the Scout Law, and began writing his first weekly newspaper column at sixteen..
A full scholarship brought Sándor to the
University of Oklahoma
, where campus corner preachers frequently condemned him and all others passing by to hell for masturbation, fornication, atheism and Darwinism. He quickly decided to take full advantage of the university's study abroad programme. After spending half of his undergraduate education studying in Mexico, Spain, France, and China, he taught English in Taiwan where he amazingly survived the traffic and paraglided for the first time.
In 2000, Sándor received a US Fulbright scholarship to study at the
University of Auckland
, New Zealand, and attended film school there. Sándor continues to live in Auckland, making films and writing for audiences in New Zealand and around the world.
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University of Oklahoma
BA English (minor History) 1998 summa cum laude
BA Spanish (minor French) 1998 summa cum laude
National Merit Scholarship
Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship
Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship
University of Auckland
MCPA (Master of Creative and Performing Arts) 2003 first class honours
BA (honours) Film, Television and Media Studies 2001 first class honours
US Fulbright Scholarship
University of Auckland Fulbright Scholarship
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