It’s been 30 years since the release of the Oscar-winning documentary “Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt,” but directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman remember when they decided to ma…
The two were at the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights when they saw the massive quilt displayed on the National Mall.Variety
They began reading more than 2,000 letters that were written by panel makers to find stories to highlight in the film of five people memorialized in the quilt. The non-fiction film tells the stories of Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell, a young hemophiliac named David Mandell Jr., intravenous drug user Robert Perryman, film historian Vito Russo’s partner Jeffrey Sevcik and landscape architect David C. Campbell, whose lover U.S. Navy commander Tracy Torrey died ofepidemic and so much still wasn’t known. “It was heartbreaking,” Epstein said, adding, “We clearly had no idea where we were in the scope of the epidemic.
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