Terry Sanders

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Terry Sanders (b. 20 December 1931, New York, New York) is a two-time Academy Award winner, having produced and/or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films. He co-heads the American Film Foundation and has produced and photographed the Oscar-winning dramatic short "A Time Out of War". He also produced and co-directed "Crime and Punishment, USA" with his brother Denis Sanders. The debuting actors in "War Hunt" are Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack, and Tom Skerritt, which he also produced with Denis Sanders.

Currently in development is a dramatic feature film, Tokyo Rose/American Patriot, a World War II true-life story of Iva Ikuko Toguri who was wrongly convicted of treason.

[edit] Selected filmography

The Eyes of Don Bachardy
Return with Honor, presented by Tom Hanks
Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age, narrated by Robert MacNeil (includes an interview with Tim Berners-Lee and Peter Norton of Norton Utilities)
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember, narrated by Edward Kennedy
Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Screenwriters: Word into Image
War Hunt
Crime and Punishment, USA
A Time Out of War
Copland Portrait, American Composer with Aaron Copland
The Japan Project: Made in Japan
Portrait of Zubin Mehta
Fighting for Life