Rob Epstein
Robert Epstein ( born April 6, 1955 in New Brunswick ( New Jersey)) is an American documentary filmmaker and film producer.
In 1985 he was for his documentary Who was Harvey Milk? about Harvey Milk, the first openly accepting gay City Council of San Francisco, awarded with producer Richard Schmiechen with an Oscar for Best Documentary. In 1990 he received for his documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt with producer Bill Couturie another Oscar in the same category. This documentary tells the story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Together with his colleague Jeffrey Friedman, he has, among other things in 1995 in The Celluloid Closet - Caught in the dream factory, a documentary inspired by the book Vito Russo on the representation of gays in American cinema, and 2000, in paragraph 175, a documentation of the life stories of several men and women who were persecuted by the Nazis because of their homosexuality, based on § 175, directed the film.
In 2010 he received together with Friedman Howl for an invitation to the competition of the 60th Berlin Film Festival. In the drama James Franco slipped into the role of the American writer Allen Ginsberg ( 1926-1997 ).
2013 turned the two Lovelace, a biopic about Linda Lovelace.
Awards
- Oscar, 1985
- Oscar, 1990
- GLAAD Media Awards, 2001