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For the past 20 years, Dr. Gilbert has been an independent documentary filmmaker, teacher, scholar, and national producer for public television. Dr. Gilbert produced two award-winning feature documentaries and several short non-fiction films.

 Dr. Gilbert’s first feature documentary film, Homecoming Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay, premiered nationally on PBS. It won several national awards for Best Documentary. Her documentary, Children Will Listen, followed children from DC public schools engaged in a year-long theater arts project, premiered at the 2004 AFI Silverdocs Documentary Festival, and had a national primetime PBS broadcast premiere.

Numerous international and national festivals, including the Women in the Director's Chair Festival, the Chicago International Television Festival, FESPACO, the Athens International Film and Video Festival, and the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, screened her films and videos  

Dr. Gilbert co-authored, with Quinn Eli, Homecoming, a companion book to the film, published by Beacon Press. 

Dr. Gilbert is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, the Harvard University Bunting Fellowship, the Kellogg National Leadership Fellowship, and the American Council on Education Fellowship.