Talent Guide
Josh Gleason
- Discipline:Director, Producer
- Program Year:Documentary Story Lab 2026
Bio
Josh Gleason is a director and producer whose work spans documentary film, television and radio. His directing credits include The Disrupted (DOK.fest Munich, 2020), distributed by Passion River Films, and True Believer (Ashland Independent Film Festival, 2018). He has directed for Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s PBS series Finding Your Roots, as well as produced for PBS’s Peabody-winning American Experience and Showtime’s Emmy-nominated The Circus. Before working in film, he reported and produced radio stories for This American Life and NPR. He is a 2024 LEF/CIFF Fellow, DGA member and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
Current Project
Untitled Nomads DocumentaryLogline
When an American family of five trades their house for an RV, teenage daughter Leilani must come of age on the road. Over six years, her parents’ attempt to teach her and her brothers through experience–and pursue a more intentional life–reveals the joys and the costs of living outside societal norms.