{{Short description|Canadian film director (born 1947)}} '''Mary Teresa "Terre" Nash''' (born 1947) is a Canadian [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning film director. Her 1982 short documentary ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' won the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)]].
Nash was born in [[Nanaimo]], [[British Columbia]]. She has a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in literature and sociology and an M.A. in behavioural science and communications from [[Simon Fraser University]]. 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 (Québec). In 1983, Nash earned a Ph.D. on the Dean's List, from [[McGill University]] in [[Montréal]]. 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 (Montreal)|Concordia University]] in Montréal; Memorial University, St. John's, NL; Emily Carr University of Art and Design in [[Vancouver, British Columbia|Vancouver]]; [[Saint Mary's College of California|St. Mary's College]] and [[Stanford University]] in California.
Nash was the subject of the 1990 [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|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 [[United States Congress|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 [[FBI]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/portraits/terre_nash/|title=Nash Terre|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013112432/http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/portraits/terre_nash/|archivedate=2012-10-13|url-status=dead|accessdate=2011-06-06}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== *''Josef's Daughter'' (2006) (editor) *''Boys on the Fringe'' (2005) (editor) *''Pleasant Street'' (2004) (editor) *''White Thunder'' (2003) (editor, writer) *''My Left Breast'' (2002) (editor) *''Niagara'' (2000) 6-part series (co-editor, co-writer) *''After Darwin'' (1999) (editor) *''Penny Lang: Stand Up on High Ground'' (1998) (editor) *''Kathleen Shannon: on Film, Feminism and Other Dreams'' (1996) (editor) *''[[Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics]]'' (1995) (director, editor, writer) *''Mother Earth'' (1991) (director and editor) *''Russian Diary'' (1989) (director, editor and writer) *''A Love Affair with Politics'' (1986) (director and editor) *''A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with [[Margaret Laurence]]'' (1985) (director) *''Speaking Our Peace'' (1985) (writer and co-director with Bonnie Sherr Klein) *''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) (director and editor) (as Terri Nash)
==Selected awards== *[[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)]], ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) *American Film Festival (Blue Ribbon First Prize), ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) *Silver Medal, [[Melbourne International Film Festival|Melbourne Film Festival]], ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) *[[Karlovy Vary]] Diploma, [[Prague]], ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) *Atom Award, [[Science Film Festival]], [[Brazil]], ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) *Leipzig Peace Prize, [[Leipzig]], [[Germany]], ''[[If You Love This Planet]]'' (1982) *First Prize, [[John Muir Film Festival]], [[San Francisco]], ''[[Speaking Our Peace]]'' (1985) *Opening Film, [[Nairobi]] International Women's Film Festival, [[Kenya]], ''[[Speaking Our Peace]]'' (1985) *Silver Award, [[Vermont]] Peace Film Festival, ''[[A Love Affair with Politics]]'' (1986) *Bronze Plaque, [[Columbus International Film Festival]], ''[[Russian Diary]]'' (1989) *Ecocine Award for Best Editing, Brazil, ''Mother Earth'' (1991) *Genie Nomination for Best Feature Documentary, ''[[Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics]]'' (1995) *Prix du Publique, Festival du Cinema, [[France]], ''[[Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics]]'' (1995) *Chris Award, Columbus International Film Festival, ''[[Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics]]'' (1995) *Silver Plaque, [[Chicago International Film Festival]], ''[[Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics]]'' (1995) *First Edition of Documentia, 2003, [[Santa Cruz de Tenerife]] International Women's Film Festival, ''Sexo, Mentiras y Mundializacion'', named in honour of ''Who's Counting?''
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0621815}} *[https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/terre-nash Watch films by Terre Nash], National Film Board of Canada
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