Terry Sanders
Sanders in 2008
Born	(1931-12-20) December 20, 1931 (age 92) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Filmmaker
Spouse	Freida Lee Mock
Parent	Altina Schinasi (mother)

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[edit]

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[edit]

He is the son of sculptor and designer Altina Schinasi.

Filmography[edit]

• 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[edit]

• American Film Foundation (co-founder)
• Denis Sanders

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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