JoeBill Muñoz

JoeBill Muñoz is a documentary filmmaker and director and producer of The Strike, a feature documentary about the California prisoner-led protests against solitary confinement. The Strike premiered at Hot Docs in 2024, where it won the student choice award, and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens. It has screened over 150 times in classrooms, universities, and community spaces across North America. JoeBill was named to DOC NYC’s “40 under 40” list of emerging filmmakers.

As a producer of feature films and TV series at Left/Right and Reveal, his work includes The Grab (Hulu), The Circus (Showtime), The New York Times Presents (Hulu) and Celtics City (HBO). In 2025, The Grab was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Research.

JoeBill also directed a PBS series, The Inside Scholars, and short films for Independent Lens (Maletero and Evidence Lost), and NBC (Follow the Sun). His work has been supported through fellowships from the Sundance Institute, New America, Firelight Media, SFFILM, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and others. Originally from Texas, he resides in New York City.

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ABOUT THE STRIKE

The Strike is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history.

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