Matt Gallagher (filmmaker)

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

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.

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 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 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. 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.

Filmography

 * 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