Matt_Gallagher_(filmmaker)

Matt Gallagher (filmmaker)

Matt Gallagher (filmmaker)

Canadian filmmaker

Matt Gallagher is a Canadian film director, producer and cinematographer from Windsor, Ontario.[1]

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Career

Gallagher has directed documentaries for History Television, CBC, BBC, The History Channel the Food Network and W Network.

In 2000, he won two Golden Sheaf Awards, Best of Festival and Best Short Subject, at the Yorkton Film Festival for the film Cass.[2][3]

In 2006 he was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program for the CBC documentary Vimy: Carved in Stone. In 2013 Gallagher's documentary Grinders was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award Best Direction in a Documentary Program or Series.

In 2019, Gallagher won the $50,000 Rogers Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary for Prey[4] at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival[5] and the DGC Special Jury Prize - Canadian Feature Documentary. In 2019, he also won Directors Guild of Canada's award for Best Picture Editing - Documentary and the Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary for Prey.

In 2020 Prey was nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Editing in a Feature Documentary at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.[6] His 2021 television documentary Dispatches from a Field Hospital was a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.[7]

Filmography

  • Cass, 1999[3][2]
  • Vimy: Carved in Stone (CBC), 2006
  • Vimy Ridge: From Heaven to Hell, 2007
  • You Gotta Have a Gimmick (NFB), 2009
  • Grinders, 2011
  • In Her Footsteps: The Story of Kateri Tekakwitha, 2012
  • How to Prepare for Prison, 2016
  • Prey, 2019[6]
  • Dispatches from a Field Hospital, 2021

References

  1. [1]
    "Award-winning Windsor documentarian tackles family stories at COVID-19 field hospital". CBC News. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Canada's Golden Sheaf Award Winners 2000" (pdf). Yorkton Film Festival. 2000. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  3. [3]
    McGinn, Dave (6 May 2011). "Matt Gallagher: filmmaker". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  4. [4]
    "'Riveting and unflinching' clergy abuse trial film Prey wins $50K Hot Docs audience prize". 6 May 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  5. [5]
    Malyk, Lauren (6 May 2019). "Gallagher's Prey wins Rogers Audience Award as Hot Docs wraps". Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  6. [6]
    Mullen, Pat (18 February 2020). "2020 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary". Point of View Magazine. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. [7]
    Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
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