Uma to play Anita

As reported in the Hollywood Reporter and elsewhere this week, we will be directing Uma Thurman in a feature film about Anita Bryant.

We've been interested in Ms. Bryant's story for years -- Rob since making The Times of Harvey Milk -- and we're excited that this project is finally getting traction. The script is by Chad Hodge, who visited Anita at her Oklahoma home as part of his research.

Uma to play Anita

Lovelace to open Provincetown Film Festival

We're thrilled that Lovelace has been selected as the opening night film at the Provincetown International Film Festival on June 19th. Can't wait - we love this festival!

Lovelace to open Provincetown Film Festival

How playing "Deep Throat" star Linda Lovelace prepared Amanda Seyfried to sing in Les Mis

An actor prepares...  read more.

Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace and Adam Brody as Harry Reems, foreground; 

Chris Noth, Hank Azaria, and Bobby Cannavale (partially obscured), background.

(photo: Dale Robinette)

How playing "Deep Throat" star Linda Lovelace prepared Amanda Seyfried to sing in Les Mis

Battle of amfAR TriBeCa premiere

Great screening, great party!

Jeff & Rob on the red carpet

Dr. Mathilde Krim and activist Richard Berkowitz at the after-party

(photos: Michael Palmieri)

Battle of amfAR TriBeCa premiere

Reteaming with Amanda!

Amanda Seyfried, ‘Lovelace’ Directors Reunite on ‘Ivy League’ | Variety

Reteaming with Amanda!

Vogue online features The Battle of amfAR

Check out Vogue's recommendations for the Tribeca Film Festival.

 Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS lobbyist (photo courtesy HBO)

Vogue online features The Battle of amfAR

Battle of amfAR invited to Tribeca

Our new short documentary The Battle of amfAR will have its New York premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 24th, 5:30pm at the SVA Theater 2 in Chelsea. Rob and Jeffrey will be there along with some special guests.

When a mysterious new disease starts killing gay men in the early 1980s, two  powerful women from very different backgrounds respond. Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor and research scientist Mathilde Krim join forces to create the first national AIDS research foundation and change the course of the epidemic. Thanks to amfAR's support of groundbreaking research, today we are closer than ever to finding a cure.

Battle of amfAR invited to Tribeca

Harry Reems 1947 - 2013

Sad to hear the news. From our research, Harry was possibly the only porn-related acquaintance that Linda had good things to say about.

NY Times obit
Variety obit

Harry Reems 1947 - 2013

The Selling of Lovelace

Lovelace screenwriter Andy Bellin wrote this article for the New York Observer about the world premiere of Lovelace at Sundance last week.

Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace (photo: Dale Robinette)

Eccles Center in Park City, Utah—known to Sundance veterans as “The Big House”—is so massive that my first thought was that the Rolling Stones would have had a tough time selling this joint out at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday night in the middle of a frigid January... read more.

The Selling of Lovelace

Berlin premiere

Berlin, Day 2: Our big premiere, in the Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin's biggest venue. The house was packed, and the film looked and sounded great on the biggest screen we've seen it on. The Berlin audience was with the film at every turn: very gratifying. Amanda on the red carpet was stunning as always, in slinky, sexy blue lace.

(L-R) James Franco, producer Heidi Jo Markel, Peter Sarsgaard, producer Laura Rister, Jeff & Rob, Amanda Seyfried, producer Jim Young.

Berlin premiere

Rob & Jeff in Hollywood Reporter

Berlin, Day 3: We were invited to participate in a directors' roundtable as part of The Hollywood Reporter's Berlin Film Festival coverage. We met some interesting filmmakers, compared our career trajectories and our working processes, and of course had our picture taken.

Rob & Jeff in Hollywood Reporter

Amanda madness in Berlin

Berlin, Day 1: Press screening & press conference this morning, with Amanda, Peter, and Franco. Needless to say it was a media frenzy. Tonight is our European premiere at Friedrichstadt-Palast, the largest venue in Berlin.

That's Amanda trying to get into her car after the press conference.

Amanda madness in Berlin

"The Times of Harvey Milk" poster on Market Street

Rob Epstein's iconic film The Times of Harvey Milk is rejuvenating San Francisco again, this time as part of a poster series by artist Christina Empedocles.  Her work, collectively titled "So I Married an Axe Murder to The Times of Harvey Milk" memorializes six classic bay area films.  The posters are on view through April 8, 2013 in the bus kiosks along Market Street between the Embarcadero and Van Ness.

Link to the Press Release

"The Times of Harvey Milk" poster on Market Street

Common Threads at MOMA in New York

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Oscar-winning film Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt will play at The Museum of Modern Art in New York on Sunday, February 3 at 5:30pm and on Thursday, February 14 at 8:00 p.m.  The film is showing as part of the Museum's Oscar’s Docs, 1955–2002: American Stories.  Common Threads, narrated by Dustin Hoffman and featuring an original vocal score by Bobby McFerrin, recounts the first decade of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. through five stories woven into the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The directors will be present at the February 14th screening to introduce the film and for a Q & A after.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/17466

Common Threads at MOMA in New York

Harvey buys Lovelace

Rob Epstein, Adam Brody, Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Jeffrey Friedman

at the Sundance premiere of Lovelace.

Lovelace had its world premiere last night at Sundance, to terrific audience response. Linda's two grown children, Dominic and Lindsay, were in the audience. So was Harvey Weinstein. Within minutes Harvey and his RADiUS co-presidents Jason Janego and Tom Quinn were negotiating in the theater lobby with Avi Lerner and Mark Gill of Millennium, and by the time the Q&A was over onstage the film had been sold to Radius/TWC. It's the perfect home for this movie. Happy and relieved! 

Harvey buys Lovelace