Chris Hegedus
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Chris Hegedus is an American documentary filmmaker. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films.
Hegedus at the Montclair Film Festival 2016
Unlocking the Cage
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Unlocking the Cage is a 2016 American documentary film about the work of the Nonhuman Rights Project and lawyer Steven Wise's efforts to grant limited legal personhood rights to chimpanzees, whales, d
Chris Hegedus
…Pennebaker co-directed the live YouTube broadcast of the National's May 2010 benefit concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2016 Hegedus directed Unlocking the Cage about animal rights attorney Steven M. Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project's legal challenge for personhood rights for chimpanzees. The film premiered…
Unlocking the Cage poster