Joel Gilbert

Joel Gilbert is president of Highway 61 Entertainment and the director and writer of the political and music documentaries. Dreams from My Real Father (2012), Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad's Coming War and Obama's Politics of Defeat (2010) and Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam (2008). Gilbert has also produced films on music icons * five documentary features films on Bob Dylan, and comedic films on Paul McCartney (Paul McCartney Really Is Dead 2010) and Elvis Presley (Elvis Found Alive 2011). The political documentary Dreams from My Real Father was featured at the Republican National Convention in Tampa (2012). Atomic Jihad was screened at the CPAC Conference in Washington D.C. and won the Hudson Institute Film Festival in 2010. Joel Gilbert appears frequently on national radio shows including Michael Savage, Mike Huckabee, Monica Crowley, Alex Jones, Jerry Doyle, Jeff Rense, and Rusty Humphries Show. Gilbert is in Los Angeles, and is a graduate of the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science, School of Oriental and African Studies, BA 1986) and George Washington University (MBA 1991). Gilbert has a "professional hobby", performing as Bob Dylan with original Bob Dylan band members in the world's only Bob Dylan tribute band, "Highway 61 Revisited".