Terry Sanders (born December 20, 1931) is an American filmmaker having produced and/or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films.
Career
Sanders co-heads the American Film Foundation and has produced and photographed the Oscar-winning dramatic short A Time Out of War. He also received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.[1] He also produced and co-directed Crime & Punishment, USA with his now-deceased brother, Denis Sanders. He worked as a producer-director for Davd Wolper Productions.
Personal
He is the son of sculptor and designer Altina Schinasi.
Filmography
- The Eyes of Don Bachardy
- Return with Honor, presented by Tom Hanks
- Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper, 1995
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (Oscar win) [2]
- Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age, 1997, narrated by Robert MacNeil (includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee and Peter Norton of Norton Utilities)
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember, 1990, narrated by Edward Kennedy (Oscar nomination) [3]
- Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record (1987)
- The New Indians (1976), a National Geographic Society and WQED-Pittsburgh production produced by Sanders and Freida Lee Mock; directed by Sanders; and narrated by Robert Redford
- Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
- Screenwriters: Words Int
- Hunt
- Crime & Punishment, USA
- A Time Out of War, 1954
- Copland Portrait, American Composer with Aaron Copland (1975), produced and directed by Sanders and co-produced by Freida Lee Mock, for US Information Agency
- The Japan Project: Made in Japan
- 1964 (1964), written, produced and directed, for US Information Agency and narrated by Lawrence Dobkin
- A Meeting With America (1965), for US Information Agency about the visit of US visit of Upper Volta President Maurice Yameogo
- Portrait of Zubin Mehta (1967), produced and directed by Sanders, for US Information Agency and narrated by Lawrence Dobkin
- Fighting for Life
- Four Stones for Kanemitsu (Oscar nomination) [4]
- To Live or Let Die
See also
- American Film Foundation (co-founder)
- Denis Sanders
References
External links
- Terry Sanders at IMDb
- The moving image collection of Terry Sanders is housed at the Academy Film Archive
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