NSCAD Film Festival: Panel discussion with Chris Hegedus and Stephen Reynolds 

As part of the 2024 NSCAD Film Festival we sat down with special guests Chris Hegedus (BFA 1973) and Stephen Reynolds (BFA 1984).
Chris Hegedus has been making films as a director, cinematographer, and editor for nearly 40 years. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award for STARTUP.COM, an intimate buddy story filmed during the first Internet boom/bust. She was nominated for an Academy Award for THE WAR ROOM, a behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. She taught filmmaking at Yale for eight years and received their Film Studies Award. In 2016 she directed Unlocking the Cage, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival was nominated for an Emmy Award. At NSCAD Chris studied photography and experimental filmmaking.