
Directing
Community Rating
6.4
TMDB estimate
Born
January 13, 1987 (age 39)
Born in
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Kelly Gallagher is an experimental filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She makes colorful cut-out animations, experimental films, documentaries, and found footage essays that explore political histories of resistance and personal stories of resilience. She has received support for her work from Creative Capital, New York State Council on the Arts, the Wexner, Doc Society, LEF Moving Image Fund, Oscilloscope Films, and Orphans Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at venues including: the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her commissioned animations have screened on Netflix, Criterion Channel, and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA, Close-Up Cinema London, Balkanima European Animation Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, and MUTA Audiovisual Appropriation International Festival, among others. Her films are distributed by Canyon Cinema. Kelly enthusiastically organizes and facilitates fun and inclusive film workshops and camps for communities of all ages, every time she gets the chance.

Retracing Our Steps
as Director
TBA
Slower
as Director
TBA

No Siren Left Behind
as Animation
TBA

Dance Film
as Director
TBA

The Inquisitor
as Animation
2025

Let It Be a Tale
as Thanks
2024

The Blues Society
as Animation
2023

Out of Frame
as Thanks
2023

Body Parts
as Animation
2022

Thine Own Self
as Thanks
2022

A Spot for Frog
as Thanks
2022

We Had Each Other
as Director
2022

Pine and Genesee
as Director
2021

In the Future
as Director
2021

Worn Stories
as Animation
2021

Ben & Fred, October 2020
as Thanks
2021

Cinetracts '20
as Director
2020

CINEMA-19
as Director
2020

Extraction
as Co-Producer
2020

Words from a Bear
as Animation
2019