TELLING PICTURES INC Information

Telling Pictures is a media production company founded by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman began working as a team with their 1989 Oscar-winning documentary COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT. Epstein previously won an Oscar for directing the groundbreaking documentary THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (Sundance 1985). Other Epstein & Friedman credits include THE CELLULOID CLOSET (Sundance 1995, Freedom of Expression Award); PARAGRAPH 175 (Sundance 2000, Directing Award); WHERE ARE WE? OUR TRIP THROUGH AMERICA (Sundance 1993). They were invited to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab with their experimental hybrid narrative feature HOWL, starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg (Sundance 2010 opening night). They directed Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, and Sharon Stone in the dramatic feature LOVELACE (Sundance 2013). They have had career retrospectives in London, Taipei, Montreal, and Zurich. In addition to feature-length films, Telling Pictures has created content for television and new media. Recent works include executive producing Killing the Colorado (2016), a feature documentary for the Discovery Channel about the water crisis in the western United States. They also directed and produced "The Hell-Raiser" (2015), a short documentary about a renegade evangelical preacher, for Alex Gibney's Amazon Prime series "The New Yorker Presents"; and the feature documentary "And the Oscar Goes to (2014), about the art and craft of moviemaking as told through a history of the Academy Awards, including interviews with Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Cher and Liza Minnelli. Their short documentary, "End Game," about end of life and palliative care was released on Netflix in 2018.