Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
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.
Crew
Cast
Narrator (voice)
Dustin HoffmanStoryteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Sara LewinsteinStoryteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
David MandellStoryteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Suzi MandellStoryteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Sallie PerrymanStoryteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Vito RussoStoryteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
Tracy TorreySelf - News Reporter (archive footage)
Gregg BakerSelf - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Gary BauerSelf - News Reporter (archive footage)
Robert Bazell
Dustin HoffmanStoryteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Sara LewinsteinStoryteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
David MandellStoryteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Suzi MandellStoryteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Sallie PerrymanStoryteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
Vito RussoStoryteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)
Tracy TorreySelf - News Reporter (archive footage)
Gregg BakerSelf - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
Gary BauerSelf - News Reporter (archive footage)
Robert Bazell
