Gail Harvey is a Canadian film and television director based in Toronto, Ontario. [1] She is most noted as director of the television film No One Would Tell , for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a TV Movie at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. [2]
She began her career as a photojournalist with United Press International, becoming noted when she accompanied Terry Fox on the Marathon of Hope and took many of the best-known photographs of Fox. [3] After directing the short documentary film Uphill in a Wheelchair: The Wayne Pronger Story in 1987, [4] she enrolled at the Canadian Film Centre in 1988, [5] and released her debut feature film The Shower in 1992. [6]
She subsequently directed the films Cold Sweat , [7] Striking Poses , [8] Looking Is the Original Sin [9] and Never Saw It Coming . [10]
She has worked predominantly in television, directing episodes of television series such as Liberty Street , Train 48 , Paradise Falls , ReGenesis , The Best Years , The Line , Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures , Republic of Doyle , Murdoch Mysteries , Lost Girl , Heartland , Carter , Family Law , Pretty Hard Cases and Sullivan's Crossing .
From her marriage to journalist Kevin Boland, she is the mother of actress Katie Boland. [11]