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American Film Foundation is an award-winning production company based in Southern California. The foundation is headed by Terry Sanders and Freida Lee Mock who have combined to create more than 60 documentary and feature films. Terry Sanders is a two-time Academy Award winner, having produced and/or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films. ...


They have won multiple awards for films like Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, A Time Out of War, and Lillian Gish: An Actor's Life for Me.


Both Sanders and Mock have dedicated the mission of their foundation to the production of films that honor the arts, sciences, humanities, and sciences.


Selected Filmography


Return with Honor, Presented by Tom Hanks Tom Hanks in February 2004 Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor famous for playing notable roles in many popular and critically acclaimed movies. ...


Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper Herbert Zipper is a Vienna born musician and conductor who survived Dachau, Buchenwald, and a Japanese concentration camp to become one of the great music educators of the world, continuing at 92 to bring music to the inner city schools of America. ...


Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Maya Ying Lin (林瓔, pinyin: Lín Yīng) (born October 10, 1959) is a Chinese American artist and architect. ...


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 Robert MacNeil (born January 19, 1931) is a television news anchor and journalist who paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Peter Norton Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American software engineer. ...


Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember, Narrated by Edward Kennedy Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22 , 1890 - January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and became its matriarch in the second half of the 20th century, when its members helped shape American politics. ... Edward Kennedy Edward Moore Ted Kennedy, (born February 22, 1932, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. ...


Interregnum/George Grosz George Grosz (July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group. ...


The Eyes of Don Bachardy Don Bachardy (b. ...


Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me Lillian Gish Lillian de Guiche (October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993), was an American actress. ...


Screenwriters: Word into Image


Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer of Swedish descent, known best for his 1950 short story collection The Martian Chronicles and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ...


War Hunt


Crime and Punishment, USA


A Time Out of War


Copland Portrait, American Composer Aaron Copland Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of modern tonal music as well as film music. ...


The Japan Project


Portrait of Zubin Mehta Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is a Indian-born American conductor of European classical music. ...


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American Film Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (216 words)
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.
The American Film Institute focuses on training through hands-on experience with established figures in the AFI Conservatory, as well as on preserving old film, which is subject to degradation of its film stock.
In 1998, the 100th anniversary of American film, AFI began its 100 Years...
Cinema of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2541 words)
A major change to American filmmaking occurred during the 1970s when a new breed of young directors who had degrees from film schools and who had absorbed the techniques developed in Europe in the 1960s emerged.
American independent cinema was revitalized in the late 1980s and early 1990s when another new generation of moviemakers, including Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Smith, and Quentin Tarantino made movies like, respectively, Do the Right Thing, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Clerks.
To a lesser degree in the 2000s, film types that were previously considered to have only a minor presence in the mainstream movie market began to arise as more potent American box office draws.
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