Robert EpsteinFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:
From the beginning of his career, multi-award-winning writer/director/producer Robert Epstein sought to explore issues of homosexuality onscreen, often though not always in a documentary context. He entered production at the age of 19, upon answering a newspaper ad looking for a director to...Read More
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  • Howl

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Bob Balaban

    Synopsis: The 1957 obscenity trial surrounding one of the Beat Generation's most acclaimed poets, Allen Ginsberg, is set to go in front of cameras with James Franco in the lead for Werc Werk Works and Telling Pictures. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman handle the directing duties on their own script, with Gus Van Sant Read More

    1/1/10

  • Save Me

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang, Robert Baker

    Synopsis: They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in this look at one of the most polarizing religious and sexual debates in America, filmmaker Robert Cary attempts to reconcile homosexuality with Christianity. Mark (Chad Allen) is a young gay man who has fallen into a dangerous Read More

    9/5/08

  • Gold Rush (January 24, 1848)

    Crew: Director

    2006

  • Paragraph 175

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Rupert Everett

    Synopsis: Academy-award winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman direct this harrowing, lyrical look at the persecution of homosexuals during the Third Reich. German historian and member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Klaus Muller interviews the dozen or so surviving victims Read More

    9/13/00

  • The Celluloid Closet

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Antonio Banderas, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin, Gore Vidal

    Synopsis: Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly -- and more importantly, implicitly -- with gay and lesbian themes. Layered between the clips are Read More

    1995

  • Where Are We? Our Trip Through America

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: This documentary came about because the filmmakers were curious about life in a part of the United States that seemed completely alien to them from their perspective as gay men living in San Francisco. Thus, at the end of the Gulf War, they took a trip to the American South and asked anyone who Read More

    1992

  • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This film, narrated by Dustin Hoffman, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1989. Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt helps put faces on the names on the quilt of those who have died from AIDS. The quilt at that time covered 14 acres. The lives of five people who suffered and fought Read More

    1989

  • The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men is presented in a unique and thoughtful manner in this video. Award-winning filmmakers Robert Epstein and Peter Adair based their documentary on the long-running Theater Rhinoceros show and added their own personal narration to produce a powerful film on Read More

    1986

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

    Actors: Harvey Fierstein

    Synopsis: A documentary portrait of San Francisco's first openly gay politician, city supervisor Harvey Milk, The Times of Harvey Milk might not have been made but for the tragic circumstances of Milk's death. On November 27, 1978, Dan White, a former city supervisor who was desperate to regain his post Read More

    1983

  • Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Sound/Sound Designer

    Synopsis: Twenty-six homosexual men and lesbian women give in-depth interviews to the filmmakers, revealing aspects about gay life which shatter widespread stereotypes. This 1977 documentary also examines the issues of racial minorities within the gay community. Among those interviewed are several factory Read More

    1977

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