The fifth webisode of RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM offers a behind the scenes glimpse of the campaign strategy behind Bill Clinton's run for President. This episode features Dee Dee Myers lecturing at CUNY.

The fourth webisode of RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM offers a behind the scenes glimpse of the campaign strategy behind Bill Clinton's run for President while highlighting issues in the current presidential race. This episode features Paul Begala and students at Georgetown University.

The third webisode of RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM offers a behind the scenes glimpse of the campaign strategy behind Bill Clinton's run for President.

The second webisode of RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM offers a behind the scenes glimpse of the campaign strategy behind Bill Clinton's run for President. This episode features James Carville engaged in a discussion of politics and media on XM radio.

The first webisode of RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM offers a behind the scenes glimpse of the campaign strategy behind Bill Clinton's run for President.

CHRIS HEGEDUS (Director/Camera & Sound)
Chris Hegedus has been making films as a director, cinematographer, and editor for over 30 years, recording some of the best-known personalities of our times. She received the 2001 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Startup.com. With her husband and partner D A Pennebaker, she directed The War Room, a behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign that received an Academy Award® nomination and won the National Board of Review’s D.W. Griffith Award for Best Documentary. Hegedus has received the Golden Eagle CINE award and lifetime achievement awards from several organizations, including the International Documentary Association. Her recent film Al Franken: God Spoke, was released theatrically in 2006.
Hegedus first collaborated with Pennebaker as editor of Town Bloody Hall, about a fractious 1971 debate on feminism. Subsequent collaborations include the 1977 television special The Energy War; DeLorean, about auto entrepreneur John DeLorean; Rockaby, capturing the Samuel Beckett play starring Billie Whitelaw; and the acclaimed 1998 feature Moon Over Broadway, which chronicled Carol Burnett’s tumultuous return to Broadway theater.
Hegedus and Pennebaker have devoted much of their creative energies to short and feature-length films about music. Before MTV, they filmed Randy Newman’s song “Baltimore,” helping establish the music video format. Their music documentary features include Depeche Mode 101; Down From the Mountain, a companion concert film to the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and the soul musical tribute Only The Strong Survive. Other music-related films include Victoria – Happy Come Home, about Victoria Williams; Branford Marsalis: The Music Tells You; Open Hand, chronicling Suzanne Vega’s concert tour; the 1994 series Woodstock Diary; and Searching for Jimi Hendrix. Their HBO special, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, won a 2004 Primetime Emmy™ Award for Best Music, Comedy or Variety Show. Other recent credits include Assume the Position with Robert Wuhl for HBO; and a segment for the highly regarded HBO special Addiction.
For Sundance Channel, Hegedus filmed Vote for Change and directed “The First Amendment Project: Fox vs. Franken.” She has created a film exhibit on collectors for Atlanta’s new Coca Cola Museum. She and Pennebaker are currently at work on The Collar, about a pastry chef participating in the prestigious French artisanal competition the Meilleurs Ouvier de France.

D A PENNEBAKER (Director)
D A (Donn Alan) Pennebaker is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cinéma vérité filmmaking. In the early sixties, Pennebaker and his colleague Richard Leacock developed one of the first fully portable 16mm synchronized camera and sound recording systems, which revolutionized filmmaking and introduced the immediate style of shooting so popular today. Pennebaker’s many professional honors include the IFP’s Gotham Award.
Pennebaker first film was the 1953 short Daybreak Express. In 1959, he joined Drew Associates, which produced for Time-Life the celebrated “Living Camera” series in the early 1960s. The filmmakers’ subjects ranged from Jane Fonda’s Broadway debut (Jane), to the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic primary (Primary), to the desegregation of the University of Alabama (Crisis).
In 1967, Pennebaker released the seminal classic Don’t Look Back, which followed Bob Dylan’s last acoustic concert tour in England. He continued to capture the musical moment in subsequent films, including the influential Monterey Pop, Keep On Rockin’ and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. 1970 brought Company – The Original Cast Album, about the recording of the Stephen Sondheim musical’s cast album.
In 1976, Pennebaker began his collaboration with his partner and future wife, Chris Hegedus, co-directing such acclaimed films as 1998’s Moon Over Broadway and 1993’s The War Room, which received an Academy Award® nomination and won the National Board of Review’s D.W. Griffith Award for Best Documentary. The team’s early films include the three-part special The Energy War; Town Bloody Hall, and DeLorean. Their many films about the performing arts and popular music include Rockaby; Elliott Carter at Buffalo; Depeche Mode 101; Searching For Jimi Hendrix; Down From The Mountain; Only The Strong Survive; and the HBO special Elaine Stritch at Liberty, winner of the 2004 Emmy Award™ for Best Music, Comedy or Variety Show. Other recent credits include Vote for Change, for Sundance Channel; Assume the Position with Robert Wuhl for HBO; and a segment for the highly regarded HBO special Addiction. They are currently at work on The Collar, about a pastry chef participating in the prestigious French artisanal competition the Meilleurs Ouvier de France.
Pennebaker was executive producer for Startup.com and Al Franken: God Spoke, both directed by Hegedus.

R.J. CUTLER (Executive Producer/Producer)
R.J. Cutler is a producer and director who has worked in film, television, theater and radio. He has won an Emmy® Award and been nominated for two others, has received the Peabody Award, and has been nominated for an Academy® Award, an Independent Spirit Award, an NAACP Award, three GLAAD Awards and a Producers Guild Award. His production company, Actual Reality Pictures, specializes in the development and production of non-fiction projects for film and television. He is currently directing and producing the feature documentary The September Issue, a behind the scenes look at Anna Wintour and Vogue magazine.
Cutler’s documentary producing credits include The War Room and Thin. He made his feature directorial debut with the 1996 A Perfect Candidate, which he also produced. For television, Cutler created, directed and executive produced “American High”, which received the very first Emmy® Award for Outstanding Reality Program in 2001. Cutler’s other television productions include “30 Days”; “Freshman Diaries”; “The Residents”; “American Candidate”; “Military Diaries”; “Bound for Glory”; “Shays Rebellion: America’s First Civil War”; “Black.White”; “Flip that House”; and “Making Dazed.”

Cutler’s other work includes producing and directing for the theater, and producing the nightly National Public Radio series “Heat,” which won the 1991 Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

WENDY ETTINGER (Executive Producer/Producer)
Wendy Ettinger is film producer whose work spans documentaries and narrative features. She recently produced Douglas Keeve’s Hotel Grammercy Park and executive produced Meg McLagen and Daria Sommers’ Lioness. She began her producing career with Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker’s 1993 documentary The War Room, and subsequently produced the team’s 1997 film Moon Over Broadway. She served as a consulting producer on Hegedus’ Al Franken: God Spoke, and produced actor Tim Blake Nelson’s directorial debut Eye of God. Prior to producing, Ettinger worked as a casting director, with credits including Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom and Carla’s Song, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands and James Lapine’s Passion.

FRAZER PENNEBAKER (Executive Producer/Producer)
Frazer Pennebaker joined Pennebaker Hegedus Films in 1980, and served as assistant producer on DeLorean. He has produced and executive produced all of Pennebaker and Hegedus’ theatrical and television films since 1983, beginning with “Dance Black America” for PBS. His feature productions include the Academy Award-nominated The War Room; Moon Over Broadway, about Carol Burnett’s return to Broadway; and the music documentary Depeche Mode 101. He also co-produced Down From the Mountain; Only the Strong Survive, the award-winning Startup.com, and Al Franken: God Spoke. In addition to his roles as producer and executive producer Pennebaker oversees all film distribution and sales for Pennebaker Hegedus Films.

Television productions include Elaine Stritch at Liberty, winner of the 2004 Emmy™ Award for Best Music, Comedy or Variety show. Other television credits include “Vote For Change” and “The First Amendment Project: Fox vs. Franken” for Sundance Channel; and, for HBO, “Assume the Position” with Robert Wuhl, and a segment of “Addiction.” He has also produced a number of music videos, and longform music films including Jimi Plays Monterey; Shake with Otis; Suzanne Vega: Open Hand; Branford Marsalis: The Music Tells You; Woodstock Diary; Searching For Jimi Hendrix; Bessie; and Sessions From West 54th Street. He is currently producing The Collar, a feature about a pastry chef participating in the prestigious French artisanal competition the Meilleurs Ouvier de France.