Terry Sanders awarded the golden frog

It is a pleasure to announce that Plus Camerimage 2009 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking will be presented to Terry Sanders.

Terry Sanders (born New York, 1931) is a director, producer and writer, who was granted the Academy Award® twice. Terry Sanders has directed and/or produced 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. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary documentary filmmakers. His documentary filmography includes such great productions as Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, the Academy Award®-winning documentary about the artist famous for Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial, Fighting for Life about American military doctors, nurses and medics on the front lines of the Iraq war, and also a famous documentary Return with Honor, which tells a story of U.S. fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam who became POWs for up to 8 years, and The Legend of Marilyn Monroe and Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record.

Terry Sanders will be an honourable guest of the Festival, where a retrospective of his films will be presented to the international public of Plus Camerimage 2009. The retrospective will be a part of documentary film section “Image of the World – World in Images” organized under the patronage of Discovery Networks Central Europe.


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