[2] Hellion, starring actors Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

[3] Candler's work in television includes directing seven episodes of Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey's Queen Sugar.

Candler is currently writing and developing a horror film for Fox Searchlight[5] and a TV series set in the oil refinery world of southeast Texas for TNT.

[6] Most recently, she was listed as the director of the television pilot The Republic of Sarah[7] for The CW, set to premiere some time in 2021.

Candler is writing, executive producing and developing Lords of Dogtown for IMDb TV, a television series based on the 2005 film of the same name.