JOE WILSON
JOE WILSON
producer/director/writer
Joe Wilson got involved in documentary filmmaking through his social activism on human rights issues. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional organizing and advocacy and the constraints of his role as a program officer at a private foundation, he picked up a camera with hopes of reaching broader audiences with stories that would inform and compel people to act.
Wilson's first film Otros Amores, which examines other forms of love in Oaxaca Mexico, won the Videomaker Magazine National Documentary Challenge and started him on his way. Since then he and qWaves.com partner Dean Hamer have
produced over a dozen pieces for national cable television and won numerous awards including Audience Prize at the One-in-Ten Film Festival, Best Short Film at the Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, runner up in the Seeds of Tolerance Competition, and official selection at film festivals in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, London, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Cape Town and Melbourne.
Wilson films Diane Gramley, head of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, at an anti-marriage rally.
