
Telling Pictures
United States(approximate location)
Telling Pictures is a film and television production company founded by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman in 1987. We produce feature films, television documentaries, and branded content.
From their site
Images from Telling Pictures’s own website.
Contact & details
How their work is rated
3 rated titles, weighted by votes
| Emmys | 1 | of | 1 | nominations | 100% |
8 wins from 19 nominations across all awards
Combined US gross, 2 of 9 titles


- Mostly
- documentary, music, biography
- Active
- 1992–2023
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 81%
- Best known for
- Lovelace
Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 7 of 9 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.
Credits11
8 films

Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music
2023 · Film
Produced

Musica!
2023 · Film
Produced

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019 · Film
Produced

Sex in '69: The Sexual Revolution in America
2009 · Film
Produced

Then and Now: 1981-2004
2004 · Film
Produced

The Celluloid Closet
1996 · Film
Produced

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993 · Film
Produced

Where Are We? Our Trip Through America
1992 · Film
Produced
- 2018
The Oscars
2018
Worked on
- 2013
Lovelace
2013
Produced
- 2010
Howl
2010
Worked on
8 titles across 20 years, averaging 0.4 a year. The last five years hold at 0.4 a year. 13 of those 20 years carry no credit on file.
Who they work with
- Rob Epstein6
- Jeffrey Friedman6
- Documentary5 of 7
- Music2 of 7
- Biography2 of 7
Names appearing on two or more of Telling Pictures’s produced titles, across the 7 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.
Works with10 companies
Companies that appear alongside Telling Pictures on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.
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