Matt Gallagher (filmmaker)

Matt Gallagher is a Canadian film director, producer and cinematographer from Windsor, Ontario,^[1] who was cofounder with Cornelia Principe of Border City Pictures.^[2]

Matt Gallagher
Born	Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Education	University of Windsor
Known for	Documentaries
Notable work	Prey
Spouse	Cornelia Principe
Awards	Rogers Audience Award (2019)

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.^[3][4]

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^[5] at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8]

Filmography

• Cass, 1999^[4][3]
• 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^[7]
• Dispatches from a Field Hospital, 2021