Terre Nash, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Terre Nash

Canadian film director, screenwriter and film editor

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1949

Place of Birth: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film editor

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Terre Nash

  • Terre Nash (nĂ©e Mary Teresa Nash) (born 1947 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian Oscar-winning film director.
  • Her 1982 short documentary If You Love This Planet won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Nash has a B.A.
  • in Literature and Sociology and an M.A.
  • in Behavioural Science and Communications from Simon Fraser University in B.C.
  • She received the President's Graduate Award, a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship and the Fonds FCAC Pour l’aide et le Soutien a la Research (QuĂ©bec).
  • In 1983, Nash earned a Ph.D.
  • on the Dean's List, from McGill University in MontrĂ©al.
  • She was the first recipient of the Alumni Award from Simon Fraser University, and was awarded "The Emily" from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2000.
  • Nash has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia School of Journalism in New York City; Concordia University in MontrĂ©al; Memorial University, St.
  • John's, NL; Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver; St.
  • Mary's College and Stanford University in California. Terre Nash was the subject of the 1990 CBC documentary If You Love Free Speech: An Unguided Tour to the Twilight Zone, directed by Pierre Leduc.
  • The documentary follows Nash on a journey to Washington, D.C.
  • in 1990, where she was invited to testify before a Congressional hearing on free speech.
  • This was the culmination of a 7-year battle, which saw her film If You Love This Planet go from the Oscar podium to the United States Supreme Court, over a Justice Department ruling (The Foreign Agents Registration Act) which required the names of U.S.
  • citizens who rented her film, be reported to the F.B.I.

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