Pennebaker Hegedus Films

10/20/2022

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

10/11/2022

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

09/12/2022

"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!

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...

06/17/2022

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/

03/25/2022

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.

02/17/2022

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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11/11/2021

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

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...

08/17/2021

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!

The Broadway documentary is released in HD for the first time August 17 from Criterion.

05/17/2021

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

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...

03/31/2021

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!

2021 Canadian Screen Awards Nominee: Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program

07/20/2020

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

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…

07/13/2020

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

D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, thrillingly illuminates three art forms.