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name: "Joseph Patel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-patel"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:47:40.703790+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Joseph Patel

Producer. Born 1 January 1972 in San Francisco Bay Area, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111364339, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1764919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223218

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)*](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md) (87)

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## Biography

Joseph Patel (born 1972) is an American producer, director and journalist. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied at the University of California, Davis, contributing to student radio station KDVS. He began his career as a music and culture journalist, later producing and directing content for MTV, Vevo, Vice Media and The Fader.

Patel has a long association with musician Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson. He produced the documentary *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), directed by Thompson, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature as well as BAFTA, Grammy and Producers Guild awards. He also produced Thompson's *Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)* (2021), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised.md)

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