Peter Gilbert (filmmaker)

Peter Gilbert (born 1957 or 1958^[1]) is an American documentary filmmaker. He was the cinematographer and one of the producers of Hoop Dreams, a 1994 documentary about two teenage basketball players in Chicago.^[2] He has worked on several films for Kartemquin Films, including Vietnam, Long Time Coming, At the Death House Door (which he co-directed with Steve James), and In the Game.^[3] He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking in 2005 for producing With All Deliberate Speed,^[4] a documentary about Brown v. Board of Education.^[5] Prior to Hoop Dreams, he worked on the cinematography of American Dream by Barbara Kopple, and with Haskell Wexler.^[2] He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[3]

As of 2018^[update], he lives in Chicago,^[3] where he grew up.^[2]

Filmography

Peter Gilbert filmography^[3]
Title	Year	Role
Hoop Dreams	1994	Cinematographer, co-producer
Vietnam, Long Time Coming	1998	Co-director, co-producer
Stevie	2002	Cinematographer
With All Deliberate Speed	2004	Director, producer
At the Death House Door	2008	Co-director, co-producer
Sacred Transformations	2010	Cinematographer
In the Game	2015	Cinematographer
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code	2018	Additional camera

^ Lee, Felicia R. (May 19, 2004). "A Filmed Taste of Lives Changed Since the Brown Case in 1954". The New York Times. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Guerrasio, Jason (January 15, 2014). "An oral history of Hoop Dreams, 20 years after its première". The Dissolve. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Peter Gilbert". Kartemquin Films. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ "Awards Nominees and Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
^ Elder, Robert K. (May 14, 2004). "'Speed' takes long look at race". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 4, 2022.

Documentaries