Matt Gallagher (filmmaker)
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Matt Gallagher is a Canadian film director, producer and cinematographer from Windsor, Ontario.{{cite news |title=Award-winning Windsor documentarian tackles family stories at COVID-19 field hospital |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/matt-gallagher-covid19-film-elderly-families-1.5557378 |access-date=29 November 2020 |publisher=CBC News |date=6 May 2020 |ref=CBC-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.{{cite web|date=2000|title=Canada's Golden Sheaf Award Winners 2000|url=http://yorktonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2000-Winners.pdf|access-date=14 November 2020|publisher=Yorkton Film Festival|format=pdf|ref=YFF-2000}}{{Cite news|last=McGinn|first=Dave|date=6 May 2011|title=Matt Gallagher: filmmaker|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/matt-gallagher-filmmaker/article578954/|access-date=26 November 2020|ref=Globe&Mail-2011}}
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{{Cite news|date=6 May 2019|title='Riveting and unflinching' clergy abuse trial film Prey wins $50K Hot Docs audience prize|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/prey-hot-docs-win-1.5124484|access-date=29 November 2020|ref=CBCNews-2019}} at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival{{Cite news|last=Malyk|first=Lauren|date=6 May 2019|title=Gallagher’s Prey wins Rogers Audience Award as Hot Docs wraps|url=https://playbackonline.ca/2019/05/06/gallaghers-prey-wins-rogers-audience-award-for-best-canadian-doc/|access-date=29 November 2020|ref=Playback-2019}} 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.{{Cite web|last=Mullen|first=Pat|date=18 February 2020|title=2020 Canadian Screen Award Nominees for Documentary|url=http://povmagazine.com/blog/view/2020-canadian-screen-award-nominees-for-documentary|access-date=26 November 2020|website=Point of View Magazine|ref=POV-2020}} 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.Brent Furdyk, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220215130202/https://etcanada.com/news/867531/2022-canadian-screen-awards-nominees-announced/ "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack"]. ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
Filmography
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- Cass, 1999
- 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
- Dispatches from a Field Hospital, 2021
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References
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External links
- [http://www.bordercitypicturesinc.com/new-page Border City Pictures]
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Category:Canadian cinematographers
Category:Canadian documentary film directors
Category:Film producers from Ontario
Category:Film directors from Ontario