American Film Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the production of outstanding films on arts, science, humanities and education. Founded by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, award-winning filmmakers based in Santa Monica, California.
Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders have written, produced, and directed more than 60 films combined, including theatrical features, documentaries, and television specials and series. Their critically acclaimed films have played in theaters, on television stations such as ABC and PBS, and at major film festivals such as Sundance. They have won numerous national and international awards including multiple Academy Awards® and Emmy Awards.
About the filmmakers:
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Freida lee mock
Freida Mock is an Academy Award and Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, a director, writer, and producer of feature length and short form theatrical documentary films.
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Terry Sanders
Director, producer, writer Terry Sanders is a two-time Oscar winner who has produced and/or directed more than 70 award-winning dramatic features, theatrical documentaries, television specials and a large body of portrait films of major American artists, writers and musicians.
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Jessica Sanders
Jessica Altina Lee Sanders is an Asian-American, Academy Award – nominated, Sundance, SXSW and Cannes Award – winning director and producer of narrative and documentary films and commercials.
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Brittany Sanders
Brittany Sanders is a painter and book artist. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, Yale University and the New York Public Library, the Peter and Helen Bing Family, Agnes Gund and the Peter Norton Family.