Early Career
Epstein began his filmmaking career at at the age of 19, after taking a Green Tortoise from New York City to San Francisco. Soon after arriving on the west coast, he answered a classified ad for a documentary seeking a production intern. This led Epstein to become the youngest of six filmmakers in the Mariposa Film Group, the entity responsible for directing the landmark 1977 documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, considered to be the first feature documentary about the gay experience in America. The film played in theaters and was broadcast nationally on PBS, an unusual occurrence for a documentary at that point in time.
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