Terry Sanders Explained

Terry Sanders
Birth Date:	20 December 1931
Birth Place:	New York City, New York, U.S.
Mother:	Altina Schinasi
Occupation:	Filmmaker

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 .^[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
• , 1995
• (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)
• , 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
• 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

External links

• • The moving image collection of Terry Sanders is housed at the Academy Film Archive

Notes and References

1. Web site: Winners & Nominees . December 30, 2015 . Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXsfo_5l7U Documentary Winners: 1995 Oscars
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dv58ssSr08 Documentary Winners: 1991 Oscars
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndnY9aU85Mo Documentary Winners: 1974 Oscars