The blessing (or curse) of making a breakthrough film these days is that it quickly becomes a franchise. Such is the case with Journeys with George, a documentary about Dubya on the campaign trail directed by Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. The film was nominated for six Emmys for pulling back the curtain on staged campaign trail coverage. See Bush talking with his mouth full! See Dubya horse around with reporters!

Now, Pelosi will be reprising her role as home-movie auteur, trailing not one but all nine presidential candidates of election 2004. HBO, which aired Journeys and commissioned the new project, expects to run the program (as of yet untitled) on election night. When San Francisco caught up to Pelosi, the filmmaker was traveling with Bob Graham, along with his four daughters and ten grandchildren, as they vacationed across Iowa in RVs. "We went fishing out on a lake each night, and he even gave me some good advice on filming," says Pelosi. "With Bush, while it seemed intimate, everything he did was in front of everybody. Now, I'm getting alone with the candidates. I'm trying to get deeper."

For Pelosi, that doesn't mean endless debates on policy minutiae. That's the domain of the Sunday political talk shows she believes reach only Beltway junkies. "You have to make presidential politics as human as possible," says Pelosi. "My goal is to bring more people in, to make them pay attention. I went to a Kerry event in New York, and there were only 12 people there."