Did you know that for over twenty years, Nancy Pelosi’s youngest daughter, Alexandra, has been one of the most successful working documentary filmmakers?

That statement doesn’t sound quite right, but by some objective metrics, it is true. Consider: most of Alexandra Pelosi’s films — recipients of six Primetime Emmy nominations and one win (for editing) — have been funded and distributed by HBO. Her 2002 debut, Journeys with George, which chronicled her time on George W. Bush’s campaign bus during the 2000 Republican primary, established her extraordinary level of access to America’s political elite on both sides of the Democratic/Republican divide.

For 2017’s The Words That Built America, her fifty-nine-minute film of readings from the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, her on-screen readers included all the living presidents (including Donald Trump), Hillary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, John Roberts, John McCain, Sean Hannity, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and more than a hundred other heavy hitters from America’s political and culture spheres. It’s fair to say that no other documentary filmmaker — not Michael Moore, Errol Morris, or Werner Herzog — has enjoyed such consistent and prestigious patronage for so long.