Hilary Harris

{{Short description|American filmmaker}}

Hilary Tjader Harris (December 9, 1929 – October 26, 1999) was a documentary filmmaker, one of the pioneers of time-lapse photography. The documentary, Seawards the Great Ships, directed by Harris, won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1962.{{cite web|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117883462.html?categoryid=25&cs=1|title=Hilary Harris|publisher=Variety|date=2000-01-05|access-date=2008-01-10}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962 |title=The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners |work=oscars.org}} The Squeeze (1964), a short experimental film about overpopulation won a Golden Gate Award for best fiction at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1964. {{Cite journal |last=Olszynko-Gryn |first=Jesse |last2=Ellis |first2=Patrick |date=2018 |title=Malthus at the Movies: Science, Cinema, and Activism around Z.P.G. and Soylent Green |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26608643 |journal=Journal of Cinema and Media Studies |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=47–69 |doi=10.2307/26608643 |issn=2578-4900}}