While a student at Loyola Marymount, Pelosi interned at SST Records. [3]
Network news
Before making documentaries, Pelosi spent a decade as a field producer at NBC News. In 2000, while working as a producer for NBC covering George W. Bush's presidential campaign,[4] she brought along a handheld camcorder documenting 18 months of her experience on the campaign trail; the footage was used to create Journeys with George,[5] a documentary that earned her six Emmy nominations.
Documentaries
In 2001, Sheila Nevins convinced Pelosi to leave network news to work exclusively for HBO. By 2017, Pelosi had filmed, produced and directed 14 documentary films, of which 13 were collaborations with Sheila Nevins.[6]
During the 2004 Democratic primaries, Pelosi returned to the campaign trail, this time following the Democratic candidates. Her HBO documentary, Diary of a Political Tourist, was accompanied by her first book Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows, about the process of selecting candidates for President of the United States. She stated that her conversations with Candy Crowley of CNN, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark inspired her to write a book.
Pelosi's documentary Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, focusing on evangelical Christians in America, aired on HBO in 2007. Pelosi interviewed former pastor Ted Haggard for the documentary. She followed this with The Trials of Ted Haggard, chronicling Haggard's exile from New Life Church after his sex and drug scandal. Alessandra Stanley, reviewing the documentary for The New York Times, called the film "strangely intriguing".[7]Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara favorably reviewed the documentary, writing that "this heartbreaking little film that may wind up being the most powerful indictment of homophobia since Brokeback Mountain." [8]
In 2015, Pelosi returned to San Francisco to make a film about the tech boom's impact on the city. The film, San Francisco 2.0 was described by Recode, as "a clear-eyed, sober recap of what's been going on...Pelosi's tale is also deeply personal; she grew up in San Francisco, but she has lived in New York for a long time. A key theme of the documentary is that the San Francisco to which she's returning is very different from the one she left."[14]Variety called San Francisco 2.0 "one of her finest."[15] The film was nominated for an Emmy for best business reporting.[16]
In 2016, Pelosi made Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? about money's influence in politics.[17] In a profile in Vogue, Pelosi calls her film a "light romp into the road map of the people and places that are funding our elections." The film drops in on a handful of folks who rank on the OpenSecrets.org list of top donors.[18]Uproxx described it as watching "Pelosi meet with an assortment of billionaire donors, asking them why they give millions to candidates, how this funding affects campaigns, and all the access these hefty donations can get you." On the press tour for the film, Pelosi talked about everything she has learned in her lifetime on the political fundraising circuit.[19]
Outside the Bubble: A Roadtripwith Alexandra Pelosi aired on HBO in October 2018.[23] Reviewing the documentary for The New York Times, critic Shawn McCreesh wrote, "Though she is Democratic royalty, Ms. Pelosi has spent much of her career dissecting, with compassion, the psyche of the political right in America."[24]
In January 2019, Pelosi debuted Goodbye Congress on HBO's Vice News Tonight, a film that features exit interviews with 14 retiring members of Congress, including Speaker Paul Ryan and 7 other Republicans who explain how Washington works.[25]
In October 2020, Pelosi released American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself on Showtime.[26][27]
In 2006, Pelosi gave birth to their first child, a boy named Paul Vos,[35] named after Pelosi's father Paul Pelosi.[36] Pelosi had a second son in 2007, named Thomas Vos, after his great grandfather Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.[37][38]
Nancy Pelosi's children and grandchildren sometimes appear with her at public events.[39][40] In a joint interview on CNN, Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi noted that Ryan has a friendship with Pelosi's grandchildren.[41]
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