Our Nixon

Synopsis

Throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they’d all be in prison. This unique and personal visual record, created by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, was seized by the FBI during the Watergate investigation, then filed away and forgotten for almost 40 years.

Director Biography

Penny Lane’s films have screened at Rotterdam, AFI FEST, Rooftop Films, MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and many other venues. She has been awarded many grant, most recently from Cinereach, TFI Documentary Fund, NYSCA and Jerome Foundation. She is a Creative Capital grantee and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012.