On Monday,
September 10th, AfterElton.com posted The
25 Greatest Gay Documentaries, and the films of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
completely dominated the list, taking up five of the rankings. Epstein’s 1977
directorial debut Word Is Out made
its mark at #16 on the list. Epstein and Friedman’s 1989 Academy Award winning
documentary Common Threads made it
to #8, and their 2000 film Paragraph 175
came in at #6. This was already gratifying enough, but the list was really swept when two
Telling Pictures films topped the rankings, taking both second and
first place; Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk, was named #2, and the spot of #1 went to
Epstein & Friedman’s Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentary, The Celluloid Closet. One blogger even went on to state that, “Not only is The Times Of Harvey Milk the
best gay documentary, it is one of the greatest documentaries of all time” and “The
Celluloid Closet is also amazing. It is very funny and entertaining.” From Rob and Jeff and all of us at Telling Pictures, thank you!
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