Joel Katz is a filmmaker and educator who makes documentary and memoir/essay films. Some have been included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and Harvard Film Archive.  

Since 1996 he has been a Professor in the Media Arts Department of New Jersey City University, and in 2008 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Germany. Joel has served on the Board of Directors of Third World Newsreel since 1999 and has been on the Advisory Board of the Thomas Edison Film Festival since 2011.