Joel Gilbert

Joel Gilbert (from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, born on April 15, 1964) is an American film director, writer, and foreign policy analyst. Through his production company, Highway 61 Entertainment, Gilbert wrote and directed three political documentaries as well as music history related films. Gilbert's 2012 release "Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception" makes the case that President Obama's real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party USA propagandist who likely shaped Obama’s world view during his formative years. Gilbert says the film is "the first cohesive understanding of Obama's deep rooted life journey in socialism, from his childhood to his Presidency." Gilbert’s previous film, Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad's Coming War for Islamic Revival and Obama's Politics of Defeat (2010), was featured at the CPAC Conference in Washington D.C. and was a winning film at the Hudson Institute Film Festival in New York City on May 31, 2010. In 2008, Gilbert produced Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam (2008), a history of Islamic-Jewish relations from the 7th Century to today.

Music
Gilbert performs in the Bob Dylan Tribute show, "Highway 61 Revisited." The group has toured in the USA, Ireland, England, and Europe. His bandmates include former Bob Dylan band members Scarlet Rivera (violin), Rob Stoner (bass), John Jackson (guitar) and Winston Watson (drums). Highway 61 Revisited toured California State Prisons in 2004 ("Take No Prisoners Tour"), the USA (Forever Young Tour 2005), Ireland and the United Kingdom in 2006 ("Rolling Thunder Revisited Tour"), and at the opening of the Bob Dylan exhibit at Experience Music Project in Seattle (2005). The band appears at festivals, casinos, night club and theatres in the USA and Canada, while performing at House of Blues venues regularly.

Education
Joel Gilbert is a graduate of the University of London where he studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics (BA 1986). Gilbert has an MBA degree from George Washington University in Washington D.C. (1991). Gilbert is a contributing editor for the popular national security and foreign policy website familysecuritymatters.org, and appears as a regular foreign policy consultant on national radio and TV shows, including The Jerry Doyle Show and The Michael Reagan Show.

Films

 * "Dreams from My Real Father" (2012)
 * "Bob Dylan Revealed" (2011)
 * Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010)
 * Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad's Coming War and Obama's Politics of Defeat (2010)
 * Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour Diaries: Drummer Winston Watson's Incredible Journey (2009)
 * Inside Bob Dylan's Jesus Years: Busy Being Born... Again! (2008)
 * Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and The Revolt of Islam (2007)
 * Bob Dylan 1966-1981: The Unauthorized Documentaries (2006 Box Set)
 * Bob Dylan 1975-1981: Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years (2006)
 * Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974: Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein (2005)
 * Bob Dylan 1966 World Tour, The Home Movies: Through the Camera of Mickey Jones (2003)

Books

 * Low Angels: The Real Story of the Music Business (1995)
 * The Acoustic Bob Dylan, His Music Styles and Guitar Techniques (1991)

Discography

 * Rolling Thunder and the Gospel Years Soundtrack (2006)
 * Masters of Dylan (2005)
 * The World’s Only Bob Dylan Tribute Band (2001)