Terre Nash
Terre Nash, and Terri Nash ( born January 1, 1949 in Nanaimo ), is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and film editor. With her documentary short film If You Love This Planet, she won an Oscar.
Life and work
Terre Nash studied literature and sociology, and then became first a master's degree in Communication Sciences at Simon Fraser University. In 1973, she moved to Montreal and was at McGill University with her work Images of Women in NFB Films During World War II and the Postwar Years: 1939-1949 PhD. In addition, she led the Allen Memorial Institute of Psychiatry, a research project on relationships between assessment and evaluation of media events.
1975 produced the National Film Board of Canada (NFB ) on the occasion of the first International Women's Year, a series of short films to the Nash one-minute animated film contributed It's No Yolk. From then on, she worked for the Studio D of the NFB as a freelance writer, animator and researcher. With If You Love This Planet led first directed a major film project and won it with producer Edward Le Lorrain 1983 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Previously, the film in which the nuclear power opponent Helen Caldicott delivers a speech, has been regarded as political propaganda by the U.S. Department of Justice and all traded in the U.S. copies had to wear an appropriate warning. Thus, the film became internationally in the headlines and at the Oscar ceremony Nash thanked the Ministry for this additional publicity. During her subsequent career brought in another documentary films in which they primarily politically engaged women like Marilyn Waring portrayed. Often they took it also cutting the film and wrote two screenplays.