Joel Gilbert

Film Director

Joel Gilbert is a documentary film maker based in Los Angeles and President of Highway 61 Entertainment. Gilbert is a graduate of the London School of Economics and George Washington University (MBA) and is a political commentator and foreign policy analyst. He has produced documentary feature films on Barack Obama, Dreams from My Real Father, American politics, There’s No Place Like Utopia, Donald Trump, Trump: The Art of the Insult, and investigative journalism including, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America.

Gilbert has also produced films on Middle East history and politics including Farewell Israel and Atomic Jihad. Other films feature music icons Bob Dylan, Inside Bob Dylan’s Jesus Years and Bob Dylan World Tour 1966 The Home Movies, as well as mockumentaries on Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney Really is Dead and Elvis Presley.