Chris Hegedus
| Chris Hegedus | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 23, 1952 |
| Occupation | Documentarian, Filmmaker |
| Years active | 1970s—present |
| Spouse(s) | DA Pennebaker |
| Website | http://www.phfilms.com/ |
Chris Hegedus (born April 23, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and partner of DA Pennebaker in their company Pennebaker Hegedus Films.
Hegedus was nominated for an Academy Award for The War Room, a behind-the-scenes film about President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. The film also won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures prize for Best Documentary. In 2001, she was awarded the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Startup.com. The film is a boom-bust story of two young internet entrepreneurs, co-produced with Jehane Noujaim. Hegedus is also the recipient of CINE's Golden Eagle Award, an Emmy Award, and lifetime achievement awards from several organizations including the International Documentary Association. Her recent films include the 2010 feature release, Kings of Pastry, about the legendary French pastry competition, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France. In 2011, Hegedus received the Athena Film Festival Award for Exemplary Directing.
Hegedus studied Fine Arts at the Hartford Art School and graduated in 1973 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in photography and experimental film making. Afterward, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan and began shooting films for the University of Michigan Burn Center. In 1975, she moved to a loft in New York City and worked as a cinematographer on independent films including Lizzie Borden’s feminist feature, Born in Flames. The following year she began her first collaboration with DA Pennebaker as editor of the feature-length film, Town Bloody Hall, a chronicle of the legendary “battle of the sexes” between Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and other feminists which took place at New York City’s Town Hall Theater in 1971.
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