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Mary Teresa "Terre" Nash (born 1947) 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).

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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 (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 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 (The Foreign Agents Registration Act) which required the names of U.S. citizens who rented her film, be reported to the FBI. [1]

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References

  1. "Nash Terre". National Film Board of Canada. Archived from the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2011-06-06.