Nancy Pelosi's filmmaking daughter turns hours of intimate footage into a look at the House speaker's home life, political and legislative battles.
A recent morning found her whipping up a Betty Crocker birthday cake, readying her New York apartment for an invasion of teenage girls and vacuuming the broken glass from a toppled Christmas tree, all while fending off a sister demanding to know whyThe trailer had just come out.
spent months living on the campaign charter, as a camcorder-toting producer for NBC News. Pelosi has since created more than a dozen documentaries, on such topics as child poverty, big money in politics and the effects of the tech boom on San Francisco, where she was born and raised.Clear-eyed and unsentimental, with a nod to women’s political empowerment, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed the skills that make her a historic figure.
“This is my view and it’s my movie,” Pelosi said, noting some in her family might have preferred a more worshipful look at their path-breaking parent. She said the speaker — whom she repeatedly referred to, with professional distance, as “Nancy Pelosi” — wasn’t a particularly cooperative subject.
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