Salon.com > redemption http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Alexandra Pelosi: “If it’s guilt or shame — Jim McGreevey’s actually doing some good in the world” http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/alexandra_pelosi_if_it%e2%80%99s_guilt_or_shame_%e2%80%94_jim_mcgreevey%e2%80%99s_actually_doing_some_good_in_the_world/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/alexandra_pelosi_if_it%e2%80%99s_guilt_or_shame_%e2%80%94_jim_mcgreevey%e2%80%99s_actually_doing_some_good_in_the_world/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:08:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13174337 Alexandra Pelosi doesn't come to a film festival struggling to woo backers or hoping to attract distributors. For the past 13 years, the youngest child of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been employed by HBO, which has enabled her to make the documentaries that have compelled her most and cover the kinds of political topics that keep America up late at night: homelessness, immigration and naturalization, the evangelical community and, with her latest film, women’s jails, recidivism, homosexuality in the Catholic and Episcopal churches and, in no small measure, redemption. Best known for getting on the campaign bus with then-presidential candidate George W. Bush for her Emmy-winning “Journeys with George” to her doc about the closeted evangelical, "The Trials of Ted Haggard," she has just arrived at Sundance to present her latest documentary, “Fall to Grace,” an 18-month study of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey.

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