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Jeffrey Friedman
Director 74 years old

Jeffrey Friedman

Los Angeles, California

Jeffrey Friedman is a non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Friedman has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

5 titles
Lovelace

Lovelace

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman 2013 1h 32m 4.8

Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.

Howl

Howl

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman 2010 1h 24m 6.0

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial.

Paragraph 175

Paragraph 175

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman 2000 1h 14m

Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.

The Celluloid Closet

The Celluloid Closet

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman 1996 1h 42m

Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman 1989 1h 20m

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.

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