Peter Gilbert

Peter Gilbert (born ) 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. 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. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking in 2005 for producing With All Deliberate Speed, a documentary about Brown v. Board of Education. 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.

, he lives in Chicago, where he grew up.

Filmography +Peter Gilbert filmography 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