From left: Dave Karger, Jeffrey Friedman, and Rob EpsteinKarger, who has hosted Pride programming for TCM previously, notes that when he found out this year’s focus would be on documentaries, he thought, “If we’re going to find a cohost, it needs to be Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.” Their analysis is always accessible and informative, he says.The films include three TCM premieres, all from Epstein and Friedman.
Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989), the first film they directed and produced together, chronicles the lives of several people who died of AIDS complications and are remembered with panels in the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.