Freida Lee Mock
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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 about a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation
American Film Foundation
The American Film Foundation is an award-winning production company based in Southern California. The foundation is headed by Terry Sanders and Freida Lee Mock who have combined to create more than 60 documentary and feature films....
with 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"...
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Mock's diverse production credits include "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....
", "Sing!
Sing!
Sing! is a 2001 short documentary film directed by Freida Lee Mock. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....
" (about a Los Angeles community children's choir), "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....
", "To Live or Let Die
To Live or Let Die
To Live or Let Die is a 1982 short documentary film directed by Terry Sanders. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....
", and "Return with Honor
Return with Honor
Return with Honor is a 1999 documentary film about American prisoners of war in the Vietnam War. Among those profiled is Senator John McCain. It is narrated by Tom Hanks....
", presented by Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
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Mock recently produced "Wrestling With Angels", a 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...
feature about playwright Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner
Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...
and "Enterprising Women", celebrating two and a half centuries of entrepreneurial women in America
United States
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She is the Chair of the Documentary Executive Committee and was the first Governor of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...
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She received her bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
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from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
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Selected filmography
- Sing!Sing!Sing! is a 2001 short documentary film directed by Freida Lee Mock. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear VisionMaya Lin: A Strong Clear VisionMaya 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....
. Academy Award Winner, Best Feature Documentary Film, 1995. - Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert ZipperNever Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert ZipperNever Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper is a 1995 short documentary film about Herbert Zipper, written, directed, and produced by Terry Sanders, with Freida Lee Mock co-producing. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 68th Academy Awards in 1996....
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to RememberRose Kennedy: A Life to RememberRose 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....
- Return with HonorReturn with HonorReturn with Honor is a 1999 documentary film about American prisoners of war in the Vietnam War. Among those profiled is Senator John McCain. It is narrated by Tom Hanks....
, presented by Tom Hanks - To Live or Let DieTo Live or Let DieTo Live or Let Die is a 1982 short documentary film directed by Terry Sanders. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....
- Bird by Bird with Annie. A Film Portrait of Writer Anne LamottAnne LamottAnne Lamott is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a political activist, public speaker and writing teacher. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical...