Udy Epstein is a graduate of American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film and TV Studies (MFA 1990), a producer of the feature film, Midnight Edition, and a writer of Tattoo (first MOW produced by Israeli TV, 1990). He established 7th Art in 1994 as an independent production and distribution outfit for specialized independent films. Seventh Art Releasing is noted for its releases of award-winning feature documentaries such as the Academy Award® winner, The Long Way Home (1997) and the Student Academy Award® winner Making Up! Other films include: the Academy Award® nominees: The Farm, Angola USA, Speaking in Strings, Long Night’s Journey Into Day and Balseros (Best Documentary feature, category). Chau Beyond the Lines, The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo, Eyewitness: The Legacy of Death Camp Art and Incident in New Bagdad were all nominated for the Best Documentary Short category by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. A Letter to a Pig was nominated in the Animated Short category (2024). Other films include: Prix Europa and IDFA winner, Photographer (Fotoamator), Coming to Light (American Masters/ PBS), the Nazi Officer’s Wife (A&E), Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (PBS), Steal a Pencil for Me (Red Envelop/ Netflix), Oswald’s Ghost (PBS), The Execution of Wanda Jean, Pleasure and Pain – (a music documentary about Ben Harper), the Hughes brothers’ American Pimp (MGM), Better Living Through Circuitry, Pop & Me, Meeting People is Easy – (a music documentary about Radiohead for EMI), 50 Children- the Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (HBO), art and Copy (PBS), Portrait of Wally, Jews and Baseball and many more.
Production credits include: Creature (HBO), the Breast Cancer Diaries, the Art of Flight, Call it Democracy, Word Wars (Discovery/ Netflix) and Wrestling Alligators. Recent films in distribution include Underfire: the Untold Story of PFC. Tony Vaccaro (HBO), Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (Telluride), The Last Blintz, The Silenced Walls, the Art of Silence (Hot Docs), Paul Newman- behind Blue Eyes, Dream Girl – the making of Marilyn Monroe and the Muses of Bashevis Singer.