Since 1997 Sandijs has been working as a journalist, scriptwriter and director for films and television programmes on important social and environmental issues. At Vides filmu studija (a production company based in Riga, Latvia) he makes programmes on environmental issues commissioned by “Vides Fakti” (Environmental Facts), a weekly 28-minute TV programme on nature and environment. Parallel to that, as the journalist of the Latvian Television he travels to different “hot spots” of the world – Georgia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan – making reportages on events and developments in those countries.