Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Directed by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
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On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.Read moreLess
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
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On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
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Dustin HoffmanNarrator (voice)
Vito RussoStoryteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)Explore the crew
- Director
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Director
- Rob Epstein
- Writer
- Rob Epstein
- Director of Photography
- Dyanna Taylor
- Director of Photography
- Jean de Segonzac
- Writer
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Producer
- Bill Couturié
- Writer
- Cindy Ruskin
- Editor
- Rob Epstein
- Producer
- Rob Epstein
- Producer
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Editor
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Original Music Composer
- Bobby McFerrin