Terry Sanders

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. 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * To Live or Let Die