Telling Pictures (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)

06/08/2024

It seems I am on an oldies tour, starting with the 40th anniversary screening of "The Times of Harvey Milk" at Sundance. A few weeks ago I was invited to the Bates Film Festival, a student run program at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, to show "Paragraph 175" (from 2000) as their opening night film. The Bates students were delightful, engaged, curious, thoughtful, and left me with a lot of hope. Last evening, the restored version of "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt" played on the big screen at the San Rafael Film Center for the opening night of their pride series, with Jeffrey and me attending. It’s been 35 years since the film was released, and I hadn’t seen the film in a while; it took me back to that very tender time. A woman in the audience remarked how Bobby McFerrin’s magnificent all-vocal "Common Threads" score is "a salve for the soul"; how true, and thanks to Todd Boekelhide (who was in the audience last night with his young son) for making it all work. Milestone Films and the Academy did a beautiful job with the "Common Threads" restoration. Next stop, June 26th I’ll be appearing with "Word Is Out"(1977) at the Sag Harbor Cinema, Sag Harbor, NY. Adds up to nearly 50 years of filmmaking. How lucky I’ve been to have collaborated with so many stellar human beings over these many years.

Happy pride one and all.

12/18/2023

Pleased to share that our film Música! will screen at the Palm Spring International Film Festival Jan 7th (8pm), Jan 8th (9:45AM), and Jan 9 (7:45PM).

Four gifted Cuban student jazz musicians are at the center of this joyous new film by two-time Oscar® winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Follow them from music school to their first trip to the U.S. in this musical feast.

05/17/2022

JOB OPENING: Assistant to Directors/Associate Producer.
Part-time assistant to producer-directors Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman and their production company Telling Pictures during production/post-production phase of an HBO feature concert documentary project. Timeframe is early June through potentially November/December of 2022.

Hours: Part-time to begin with; possibility to moving to full-time in the future. To apply, send cover letter and resume with subject line “Assistant to the Directors” to [email protected]. No phone calls please. Please do not reply to this post.

09/08/2021

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice has been nominated for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary at the 2021 Emmy Awards. Tune in with us on September 29th to see who wins. 🤞🤞

06/15/2021

TCM commemorates Pride Month and the Stonewall Riots on Monday, June 28th with six documentaries about the lives of LGBTQ peoples around the world. Five of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's films will be shown including network premieres of Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Celluloid Closet, and Paragraph 175.

Follow the link below for a full list of films and showtimes.

Monday, June 28 marks the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which gave rise to the gay liberation movement and inspired decades of Pride parades each June. On that night, patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village had finally had enough of police brutality and abuse. At the...

05/27/2021

Next month, the Criterion Channel celebrates Pride Month with a host of extraordinary queer-themed films including a retrospective dedicated to the nonfiction trailblazers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, whose films have helped bring LGBTQ stories out of the closet and into the mainstream. Click below for the full schedule.

Next month, we celebrate Pride Month with a host of extraordinary queer-themed films, including underground classics, documentaries, and the latest installment of our ongoing series Queersighted.

03/14/2021

Tune-in to the Recording Academy / GRAMMYs tonight (8pm ET/5pm PT)! Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice is nominated for Best Musical Film!

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Tune in to the Recording Academy / GRAMMYs this Sunday night, March 14. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice is nominated for Best Musical Film!

Telling Pictures (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)

12/17/2020

Tonight! Join us for a Q&A with Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, moderated by Jay Rosenblatt.

Part of Roxie Theater’s Quickt Takes series - virtual conversations featuring filmmakers from the Bay Area and beyond.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roxie-quick-takes-rob-epstein-jeffrey-friedman-tickets-129779733677

In this Quick Take, the Oscar-winning team of Epstein & Friedman discuss two of their short films with fellow filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt.

12/09/2020

Catch our directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman in a live q&a with the Roxie Theater next week!

In this Quick Take, the Oscar-winning team of Epstein & Friedman discuss two of their short films with fellow filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt.

11/24/2020

Congratulations to the Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice team for their Recording Academy / GRAMMYs nomination for Best Musical Film! Telling Pictures (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
Full list of nominees: https://bit.ly/3pY4CYI

10/13/2020

Join us starting October 23rd for a very special lineup of films by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman presented by the Lincoln Center.

The selection includes some of the most moving and powerful works chronicling gay life, including The AIDS Show, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, and Where Are We?, presented by Milestone Film. Epstein's quintessential The Times of Harvey Milk will also available to view.

And mark your calendars for a Q&A with Epstein & Friedman on October 24th at 6pm ET- advance registration required.

**Join Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman for a free talk on Oct. 24 at 6pm ET. Register [here](https://filmlinc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tQZjrjBvRsiS9Dq9936hoQ).** For more than 30 years, Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have borne powerful witness to gay life, creativity,....

09/25/2020

The q&a session for Frameline's screening of The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, an audience favorite at the festival this year. You can still catch it this weekend through 9/27 at Frameline.org

The film is co-sponsored by the BLACK X FILM FESTIVAL, which is also happening this weekend starting tonight!