Pennebaker Hegedus Films

A happy memory of Chris, Penny and Steve at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with Unlocking the Cage!

Join me this doctober in celebrating Sundance Institute’s 20th anniversary of the Documentary Film Program supporting urgent storytelling, building community for artists, and developing fearless projects from global storytellers. sundance.org/support/donate

This Sunday The Quiet Epidemic is at the Hamptons International Film Festival!

"Documentary Now ... and Forever" is starting this Week at IFC Center​, a series of classic documentaries paired with their hilarious Documentary Now​ parodies. Catch Original Cast Album: Company Paired with Original Cast Album: Co-Op and The War Room paired with The Bunker, tickets available now!

IFC Center - Documentary Now…And Forever! Created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Rhys Thomas, the landmark series Documentary Now! premiered on IFC in 2015. Introduced by Helen Mirren and winkingly posing as a long-running program that stretches back decades, the show has been lovingly paying tribute to documentary classics fo...

55 years ago The Monterey Pop Festival took place in California. Thanks to Lou Adler and D A Pennebaker for capturing all the dynamic performances so that we can still enjoy them today.

https://bestclassicbands.com/monterey-pop-festival-55th-anniversary-interviews-6-9-22/

The next agricultural revolution is here. Watch now On Demand in the US and Select Territories!

Directed by Liz Marshall & narrated by Jane Goodall, the award-winning documentary is the world’s film about the game-changing climate solution of cultivated meat. Learn more at www.meatthefuture.com/watch.

Sorry to hear about Seymour Wishman. Indie Films were in his DNA He distributed two of our films, Kings of Pastry and Unlocking the Cage. First Run Features was a pleasure to work with. Condolences to his family and everyone at at FRF.

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Tickets for the DOC NYC screening of THE ENERGY WAR PART TWO FILIBUSTER are available now here! https://www.docnyc.net/film/the-energy-war-filibuster/

https://filmmakermagazine.com/112559-there-are-so-many-parallels-between-what-went-on-then-and-trying-to-pass-bidens-spending-and-energy-bills-today-chris-hegedus-on-the-restoration-of-the-energy-war-part-two-filibuster-at-doc-n/ #.YY1TbOlKhTI

“There Are So Many Parallels Between What Went On Then and Trying To Pass Biden’s Spending and Energy Bills Today”: Chris Hegedus on the Restoration of The Energy War, Part Two: Filibuster at DOC NYC | Filmmaker Magazine Click here to read our Fall 2021 issue, featuring this year's 25 New Faces of Film, B**g Joon-ho interviewing Last Night in Soho's Edgar Wright and more...

Today is the day! The all new 4K restoration of Original Cast Album: Company is out from The Criterion Collection. Get your DVD or Blu-Ray today!

https://www.playbill.com/article/watch-elaine-stritch-sing-the-ladies-who-lunch-from-newly-remastered-original-cast-album-company-documentary

Watch Elaine Stritch Sing 'The Ladies Who Lunch' From Newly Remastered Original Cast Album: Company Documentary | Playbill The Broadway documentary is released in HD for the first time August 17 from Criterion.

An all new, restored 4K digital transfer of Original Cast Album: Company is coming soon on August 17th, 2021! Head on over to The Criterion Collection at the link below to reserve your copy today!

https://www.criterion.com/films/30212-original-cast-album-company?fbclid=IwAR2oSrjGGP3PLLhu8iJpQiwUJxDxLMEL4YXbiPXF2eoiRcTNefQdjzGQ50g

Original Cast Album: “Company” This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, t...

Congratulations to Liz Marshall, Janice Dawe, Chris Hegedus, and Meat the Future Film for being nominated for the 2021 Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program at the Canadian Screen Awards!

https://www.academy.ca/2021/meat-the-future/

Meat the Future - Academy.ca 2021 Canadian Screen Awards Nominee: Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program

An excellent remembrance of Penny on his 95th birthday, we miss him dearly.

https://www.showbiz411.com/2020/07/15/remembering-lifetime-oscar-recipient-da-penneabaker-born-95-years-ago-today

Remembering Lifetime Oscar Recipient DA Pennebaker, Born 95 Years Ago Today, Always Alive in Our Hearts Today DA Pennebaker (Oscar nominee, 1st ever documentary filmmaker to get an honorary Oscar) would have turned 95 years old. His massive, sprawling family would have gathered in Sag Harbor, Long Is…

You can catch "Original Cast Album: Company" on the Criterion Channel now!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-unstrung-power-of-elaine-stritch-in-original-cast-album-company

The Unstrung Power of Elaine Stritch in “Original Cast Album: Company” D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, thrillingly illuminates three art forms.

Congratulations to those who 50 years ago starred in the original production of Company and all those who made it through the grueling 18 hour cast album recording session. We are happy to announce that The Criterion Collection will be releasing the Blu-ray of 'Company: Original Cast Recording' within the next few months. Can't wait to sort through all the possible extras they will put on it. Does anyone have any ideas?

Merry Merry!

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Jingle Bells This short film was the first film I made with Robert Kennedy after his brother’s death. Robert Kennedy had decided to run for the New York Senate and was…

Happy Holidays from Pennebaker Hegedus!

Thank you to Hamptons Doc Fest for honoring D A Pennebaker this weekend in his beloved Sag Harbor.

https://indyeastend.com/arts/entertainment/a-tribute-to-penny/

A Tribute To Penny - The Independent “Find a story that you believe in and find a passionate subject. You just have to get out there and go do it,” Chris Hegedus said, a word of advice to filmmakers of today. “It’s like James Carville said in ‘The War Room’ — ‘Golf is a game of luck, the more I play, the …

Thank you to Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema for honoring D A Pennebaker, if you are in the Toronto area try and stop by.

https://www.hotdocscinema.ca/c/da-pennebaker-tribute?_ga=2.196779503.291928001.1570639247-959209896.1570639247

Direct Cinema: The Films of D.A. Pennebaker - Hot Docs Cinema D.A. Pennebaker, the master director who revolutionized the art of documentary with his canny, verité style, passed away this summer at the age of 94.

A great interview with Booker T who backed Otis Redding at Monterey Pop for an amazing 20 minutes of music. Click the link and take a listen to Try a Little Tenderness!

https://bestclassicbands.com/booker-jones-mgs-interview-7-30-19/

Booker T. Jones: A Chat with the Memphis Soul Legend - Best Classic Bands "Black people thought it was a black band and white people thought it was a white band," says the keyboardist behind the soul classic "Green Onions."

Hanging out with an old friend ... the DeLorean car at the Tribeca premiere of Framing John DeLorean.
Penny and I spent two years filming the birth of John's stainless steel sports car in Belfast, Northern Ireland to its debut in the USA.

I am so proud to be a co-producer and a cinematographer on Cracked Up. Michelle Esrick's powerful documentary on Darrell Hammond and childhood trauma. Listen to this podcast with them.

The Long Arm of Childhood Trauma - Road to Resilience Saturday Night Live veteran Darrell Hammond, filmmaker Michelle Esrick, and Mount Sinai psychologist Jacob Ham, PhD, discuss childhood trauma, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and healing. (Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Pl...

"Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the best documentary about the American political system?"

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/best-documentaries-american-politics-1202051821/?fbclid=IwAR3jPDtESgFwbncQ9GUtXResiCIClHAJOqWySXvVbhlmCbGVREwU6kQ_7II

The 9 Best Documentaries About the American Political System — IndieWire Critics Survey With the 2020 race heating up, and Beto O'Rourke launching his campaign with a film, our panel of critics picks the best documentaries about the American political system.

Happy 89th birthday to Stephen Sondheim!

Thom Powers' new episode of Pure Nonfiction is out now with Penny, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney, and more talking about Company and the new episode of Documentary Now. Listen at the link below.

http://www.purenonfiction.net/99-d-a-pennebaker-seth-meyers-john-mulaney-more-on-stephen-sondheims-company/

99: D.A. Pennebaker, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney & more on Stephen Sondheim’s “Company" D.A. Pennebaker’s1970  documentary “Original Cast Album: Company” captures the dramatic recording session of the Stephen Sondheim

Check out the new episode of Documentary Now, Original Cast Album: Co-op based on Original Cast Album: Company, premiering tonight on IFC!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/theater/original-cast-album-co-op-mulaney-meyers-sondheim.html

John Mulaney and Seth Meyers Fondly Send Up Sondheim. He’s Amused. The tribute to a 1970 documentary about the musical “Company” is part of the third season of IFC’s “Documentary Now!”

Happy birthday to Dean Jones (1/25/1931 - 9/1/2015), here is his "great, sensational" performance of Barcelona with Susan Browning from Company.

https://youtu.be/04zBxmsE7zw

Barcelona - Dean Jones / Susan Browning - Company OBC, 1970 Dean Jones and Susan Browning have a lovely duet in "Barcelona" from Sondheim's original 1970 production of "Company." This excerpt is from the highly recomm...

Congratulations to Chefs Canonne and Pfeiffer on receiving the Fauteuil de l'Académie from the Académie Culinaire de France!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/french-pastry-school-founders-recognized-for-lifetime-achievement-300775861.html

French Pastry School Founders Recognized for Lifetime Achievement CHICAGO, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In a rare instance, the USA chapter of the Académie Culinaire de France, awarded the prestigious Fauteuil de l'Académie...

Happy birthday to David Bowie, he would have been 72 today, we miss him dearly.

Great note in the New York Times about the new episode of Documentary Now based on Company: Original Cast Album!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/arts/television/winter-tv-shows.html

Winter TV Preview: ‘True Detective,’ ‘Carmen Sandiego’ and 19 More Shows to Watch A guide to the shows worth your time this season, also including “High Maintenance,” “Documentary Now!” and “Sex Education.”

Congratulations to Lou Adler, with out whom Monterey Pop would not exist, and to Sam Moore, the heart and soul of Only the Strong Survive!

https://www.showbiz411.com/2018/12/19/grammy-lifetime-achievement-sam-dave-black-sabbath-dionne-warwick-george-clinton-billy-eckstine-donny-hathwaway

Grammy Lifetime Achievement: Sam & Dave, Black Sabbath, Dionne Warwick, George Clinton, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Lou Adler, Ashford & Simpson, Julio Iglesias The Grammy Award Lifetime Achievement inductees have been announced. And what a gang. Perfection: Black Sabbath, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Ig…

Monterey Pop was one of the 25 films chosen by The Library of Congress to be inducted into the National Film Registry. Not a bad 50th anniversary present!

https://www.showbiz411.com/2018/12/12/da-pennebakers-seminal-concert-film-monterey-pop-joins-the-750-movies-in-the-national-film-registry?fbclid=IwAR0v2_nesC6WOXp8cRW4tlpGVTiFgcYzNvADQDmxxdV4yJ3VFRksNV0O9zs

DA Pennebaker’s Seminal Concert Film “Monterey Pop” Joins the 750 Movies in the National Film Registry This morning at 3am the Library of Congress announced the new additions to the National Film Registry. There are now about 750 films in the registry, including the ones announced this morning. Lege…