The American Film Foundation is an award-winning production company based in Southern California

Southern California

Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...

. The foundation is headed by Terry Sanders

Terry Sanders

Terry Sanders is an American filmmaker having produced and/or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films. He co-heads the American Film Foundation and has produced and photographed the Oscar-winning dramatic short "A Time Out of War"...

 and Freida Lee Mock

Freida Lee Mock

Freida Lee Mock is a filmmaker, credited with producing films about a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders....

 who have combined to create more than 60 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 and feature film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s.

They have won multiple awards for films like Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is a 1994 documentary film made by Freida Lee Mock about the life of American artist Maya Lin, whose best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C....

, A Time Out of War

A Time Out of War

A Time Out of War is a 1954 short war film directed by Denis Sanders. It won an Academy Award in 1955 for Best Short Subject , first prize at the Venice Film Festival Live Action Short Film category, and a special BAFTA Award....

and Lillian Gish: An Actor's Life for Me.

Both Sanders and Mock have dedicated the mission of their foundation to the production of films that honor the arts, humanities, and sciences.

Selected filmography

• Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
  Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
  Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision is a 1994 documentary film made by Freida Lee Mock about the life of American artist Maya Lin, whose best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C....
  
  
• Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
  Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
  Rose Kennedy: A Life To Remember is a short documentary directed by Terry Sanders and produced by Sanders with Freida Lee Mock. It was nominated for a "Documentary Short Subject" Academy Award in 1991....
  
  , Narrated by Edward Kennedy
  Ted Kennedy
  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
  
  
• War Hunt
  War Hunt
  War Hunt is a 1962 war film starring John Saxon, Charles Aidman, and Robert Redford. The film was directed by Denis Sanders, produced by his brother, Terry Sanders for T-D Enterprises, and released by United Artists....
  
  
• A Time Out of War
  A Time Out of War
  A Time Out of War is a 1954 short war film directed by Denis Sanders. It won an Academy Award in 1955 for Best Short Subject , first prize at the Venice Film Festival Live Action Short Film category, and a special BAFTA Award....