End Game

Where will loved ones spend their last days? Who will be in the room? What feelings and secrets need to be shared with family before it is too late? Acclaimed Academy Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk, The Celluloid Closet, Paragraph 175) probe these questions and more in the context of two San Francisco Bay Area medical facilities on the forefront of creating new paradigms for end of life decisions with grace.

The filmmakers embed themselves with the Palliative Care team at UCSF Medical Center and at San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project, featuring visionary practitioners BJ Miller MD and Steve Pantilat MD. Once an outlier, Zen Hospice has come to embody a growing nationwide effort to reclaim the end of life as a human experience instead of primarily a medical one.


Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, following visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death - and dedicated to changing our thinking about both.