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.

Photo: Gene Pittman

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

Entertainment Weekly features exclusive Lovelace pic

Entertainment Weekly released this production still from Lovelace, which will have its world premiere next Tuesday, January 22 at Sundance.

Entertainment Weekly features exclusive Lovelace pic

Oscar nomination for Kings Point

Kings Point, the short documentary directed by Sari Gilman and edited by Jeffrey Friedman, moved from the shortlist to a nomination this morning. Go, Sari!

Oscar nomination for Kings Point

"The Times of Harvey Milk" added to National Film Registry

Rob Epstein's 1984 film The Times of Harvey Milk has been named to the National Film Registry.  As reported in today's Washington Post: "The registry, created in 1989, designates the moving images that it deems historically, culturally and aesthetically important enough to be preserved by the library, guaranteeing that they will become part of the nation’s permanent visual record." The article goes on to note that the choice "came as welcome news to board members and outside observers who had perceived a conspicuous absence of films by and about gay Americans on the national registry."

Rob's reaction: "As my mother said, 'it just can't get better than this,' and I have to say I agree. Now The Times of Harvey Milk is literally an institution. What an honor."

Read the official Library of Congress press release

"The Times of Harvey Milk" added to National Film Registry

Lovelace is going to Berlin!

We are happy to announce that Lovelace has been invited to the Berlin Film Festival for its European premiere in February, and very pleased that we will be screening in the Panorama section.

Read about it on Indiewire.

Lovelace is going to Berlin!

THE BATTLE OF AMFAR: another Sundance premiere

Sundance has announced that our short documentary THE BATTLE OF AMFAR will have its world premiere at the upcoming festival. Earlier this week it was announced that our dramatic feature Lovelace would have its premiere there. So now we'll be presenting world premieres of two films at next month's festival. Sweet!

The Battle of amfAR
When AIDS strikes, two very different women – Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor and research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim – join forces to create America’s first AIDS research foundation.  The fight against HIV/AIDS has never been the same.

THE BATTLE OF AMFAR: another Sundance premiere

Lovelace to premiere at Sundance

We are thrilled to share the news that our new film Lovelace will have its world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. Lovelace stars Amanda Seyfried as the world's first "adult film" superstar Linda Lovelace, and Peter Sarsgaard as her overbearing husband/manager Chuck Traynor. Our amazing supporting cast features Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Sharon Stone, and Juno Temple.

www.thelovelacemovie.com

Lovelace to premiere at Sundance

Rob & Jeff in Vanity Fair

We were guests at amfAR’s annual Inspiration Gala in Hollywood a few weeks ago. As part of the festivities we were invited to screen a preview of our upcoming documentary about the history of amfAR, the world’s first AIDS research foundation, and the two extraordinary women who started it: scientist Mathilde Krim and Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor. The celebrity-studded event was reported in Vanity Fair online.

Rob & Jeff in Vanity Fair

"The Art of Nonfiction Filmmaking" reviewed in Documentary Magazine

Very nice review of our new book The Art of Nonfiction Movie Making in this month's Documentary Magazine online. An “excellent and practical guide to documentary-making.”  Read the whole review here.

"The Art of Nonfiction Filmmaking" reviewed in Documentary Magazine

Oscar shortlist for Kings Point

Sari Gilman's film Kings Point (edited by Jeffrey) was shortlisted for an Oscar in the Documentary Shorts category today. Congratulations, Sari!

Oscar shortlist for Kings Point