Peter Gilbert (filmmaker)

{{short description|American documentary filmmaker}}

Peter Gilbert (born {{Birth based on age as of date|46|2004|May|19|noage=1}}{{cite news |title = A Filmed Taste of Lives Changed Since the Brown Case in 1954 |first = Felicia R. |last = Lee |date = May 19, 2004 |newspaper = The New York Times |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/movies/a-filmed-taste-of-lives-changed-since-the-brown-case-in-1954.html |access-date = May 14, 2022}}) is an American documentary filmmaker, film producer, and cinematographer. He was the cinematographer and one of the producers of Hoop Dreams, a 1994 documentary about two teenage basketball players in Chicago.{{cite web |title = An oral history of Hoop Dreams, 20 years after its première |first = Jason |last = Guerrasio |date = January 15, 2014 |website = The Dissolve |url = https://thedissolve.com/features/oral-history/360-an-oral-history-of-hoop-dreams-20-years-after-its-/?page=all |access-date = April 4, 2022}} 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.{{cite web |title = Peter Gilbert |website = Kartemquin Films |url = https://kartemquin.com/about/peter-gilbert |access-date = April 4, 2022}} He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking in 2005 for producing With All Deliberate Speed,{{cite web |title = Awards Nominees and Winners |publisher = Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |url = https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2005/exceptional-merit-in-documentary-filmmaking |access-date = April 4, 2022}} a documentary about Brown v. Board of Education.{{cite news |title = 'Speed' takes long look at race |first = Robert K. |last = Elder |date = May 14, 2004 |newspaper = Chicago Tribune |url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-05-14-0405140236-story.html |access-date = April 4, 2022 }} Prior to Hoop Dreams, he worked on the cinematography of American Dream by Barbara Kopple, and with Haskell Wexler. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

{{As of|2018}}, he lives in Chicago, where he grew up.