Matt Gallagher (filmmaker)

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Matt Gallagher
Born
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
EducationUniversity of Windsor
Known forDocumentaries
Notable work Prey
Awards Rogers Audience Award (2019)

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

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The Golden Sheaf Award for best Indigenous production is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

The Golden Sheaf Award for best Emerging Filmmaker production is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

The Kathleen ShannonAward is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

The Golden Sheaf Award for the best Short Subject is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

The Golden Sheaf Award for the best Comedy production is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

The Golden Sheaf Award for the best Multicultural production is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

The Golden Sheaf Award for the best Lifestyle program is presented by the Yorkton Film Festival.

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References

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