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Gabe Gentry is a visual storyteller with over 20 years of experience in video production and photography. He is driven by a passion for connecting people through meaningful stories. After earning a degree in digital film production, he joined Arkansas PBS as Executive Producer of their World War II Oral Histories Project, "In Their Words." Over five years, he and an archiving team preserved more than 500 hours of firsthand interviews with veterans and civilians of the Second World War. From those testimonies, they produced an award-winning documentary and educational website, which premiered alongside the Ken Burns’ PBS series The War.
From 2009 to 2019, Gabe worked as a freelance producer, shooter, and editor, focusing on documentary and nonprofit advocacy films. His work took him around the world, including a 2014 reporting assignment inside Iraq covering the rise of ISIS for Al Jazeera News. Back home, he served in leadership roles within Arkansas’s film community, serving as Festival Director of the 2015 Little Rock Film Festival and Director of Events for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival from 2013 to 2017.
In 2019, Gabe joined Winrock International as a video producer and international photographer based in Washington, D.C. There, he documented the organization’s work across some of the world’s most complex challenges in underreported regions. His visual storytelling brought attention to frontline efforts in climate resilience and sustainable agriculture, helping elevate the voices of those most affected by environmental and economic shifts.
Gabe provides care, curiosity, and craft to every stage of the creative process. “I believe in the power of a well-told story. Since the earliest days of humanity, storytelling has been our most enduring tool for remembering, teaching, influencing, and, above all, connecting.”
The Hi8 Tapes
In 1998, my grandparents gifted me a Hi8 camcorder for high school graduation. It sparked a habit of documenting life as it unfolded around me. Twenty years later, I digitized the collection. As I reviewed the footage, it felt like opening a time capsule. Moments I had long forgotten were suddenly alive again. That experience led me to make this video, an attempt to create a relatable mosaic from those fragments.There are so many important people I wish I could have included, but some moments were lost in moves or simply never recorded. The stretch between the graduation camcorder breaking and my first iPhone in 2008 feels especially thin. These faces may be total strangers to you, but the arc is universal. Time is pressing us forward, and change comes with it. We experience love and loss, and all the fleeting moments in between that shape us more than we realize.
