1. Chris Hegedus was born on April 23,1952 and is an American documentary filmmaker.
10 Facts About Chris Hegedus
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Chris Hegedus was the recipient of CINE's Golden Eagle Award, an Emmy Award, and lifetime achievement awards from several organizations including the International Documentary Association.
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Chris Hegedus's films include the 2010 feature release, Kings of Pastry, about the legendary French pastry competition, the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
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In 2011, Chris Hegedus received the Athena Film Festival Award for Exemplary Directing.
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Chris Hegedus studied Fine Arts at the Hartford Art School and graduated in 1973 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in photography and experimental film making.
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Chris Hegedus has devoted much of its creative energy towards short and feature-length films about music.
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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.
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Chris Hegedus has lectured on documentary film in colleges around the country.
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Chris Hegedus taught film at Yale University for eight years and received their Film Studies Award.
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Chris Hegedus is managed by Frazer Pennebaker who has served as the producer on all of their films since the mid-eighties.