Terre Nash


Mary Teresa "Terre" Nash 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 was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She has a 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. 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 in Montréal; Memorial University, St. John's, NL; Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver; St. Mary's College and Stanford University in California.
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 which required the names of U.S. citizens who rented her film, be reported to the FBI.

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