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Peter Gilbert (born 1957 or 1958) 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.
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When Steve James fell in love with film at an early age, he dismissed documentaries as dry and even preachy. “I associated documentaries with social issues—a kind of medicine one would take in classes,” he said. But through exposure to works like Harlan County, USA and the Up series, he realized the genre could wield as much drama as narrative film...
Hoop Dreams was not originally intended to be a movie. James and producers Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert initially envisioned the project as a half-hour special on public television. “Documentaries just weren’t part of the theatrical business in any meaningful way,” James said. While notable exceptions included Madonna: Truth or Dare and Michael...
While sports movies like Hoosiers and Field of Dreams were immensely popular at the time of Hoop Dreams’filming, sports documentaries were scarce. “Documentaries that looked at sports in any way were just considered fluff and not of social importance,” James said. And though James, Gilbert and Marx shot the film from the perspective of basketball o...
Bing Liu was a young child when Hoop Dreams was released. He saw the film for the first time five years ago, and while watching it wasn’t a breakthrough moment for him like it was for Garbus, he began to realize how much it had influenced the norms of his filmmaking generation. James’ exhaustive longitudinal commitment—he shot for more than five ye...
May 14, 2004 · Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education -- where it was ruled that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place" -- via never-before-heard stories from pe... Read all.
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Oct 14, 2015 · In less than a year-and-a-half, Forager Film, with filmmakers Joe Swanberg and Peter Gilbert and trader Eddie Linker as partners, has produced six feature films, with four of them—Swanberg’s “Happy Christmas” and “Digging for Fire,” his wife Kris Swanberg’s “Unexpected” and Alex Ross Perry’s “Queen of Earth ...
Sep 30, 2011 · Award-winning filmmaker Peter Gilbert has accepted a three-year faculty appointment with Wake Forest University in the Documentary Film Program (DFP). Producer and director of photography on the Oscar-nominated documentary “ Hoop Dreams ,” Gilbert’s film won every major critics prize and journalism award in 1995 and was named ...
May 14, 2004 · Directed by Peter Gilbert. Not rated, 90 minutes. Monday is the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case, which struck down the concept of...
Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education — where it was ruled that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place" — via never-before-heard stories from people directly responsible for, and greatly affected by, the ...
