KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
OurToba Film Network
OurToba Film Network is a Winnipeg community group connecting and inspiring women, non-binary and gender-diverse filmmakers. Kathleen Gallagher is the current coordinator the this organization.
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Hook Up
This short film explores the often funny, strange yet beautiful interactions that occur when individuals decide to “hook up” in the name of sex, love and connection. This film is a proof of concept for a tv series with the same name.
Village Conservatory - Inhibition Exhibition 2023
Party Animal
Producer: Kathleen Gallagher
Director: Trevor Kristjanson
Mr. Animal, our clueless antihero is brazenly confronted by his wife and various authority figures about his reckless and damaging behavior. Mr. Animal continues to thrive, in a society set up for him to win over and over again. Party Animal is a subversive and satirical take on the privileges of the modern man.
Canadian International Comedy Film Festival:
People's Choice Award [Winner]
Yorkton Film Festival:
Best Comedy Award [Nominated]
Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Writer: Helen Childress
Investigative reporter Nellie Bly feigns mental illness on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women's Lunatic Asylum.
Piece of Mind
Producer: Kathleen Gallagher
Director/Writer: Erin Hembrador
An elderly man living with dementia invites an unexpected guest over for lunch.
Gimli Film Festival:
Best Performance by a Female Artist [Winner]
Best Performance by a Male Artist [Winner]
Best Director in Manitoba [Nominated]
Screened at The Vancouver Island Short Film Festival
Selected for Canadian Reflections on CBC
Bebe Blue
Producers: Natalia Longley, Kathleen Gallagher and Trevor Kristjanson
Writer: Natalia Longley
Director: Kayla Jeanson
Sara is an expecting mom in a loving marriage. After the baby is born she struggles with her husband and in her social life. Her daughter burdens her with an emotional strain she didn’t plan for. Her baby frustrates and confuses her. Unable to admit her short-comings, Sara keeps her struggles a secret from her family and friends. The angst and sleep deprivation lead Sara down a dark road of depression and self-doubt. She strives to be a good mother all the while trying to reconnect with her equally frustrated husband.
Stegman Is Dead
Director: David Hyde
Meet Stegman. He's dead. In this crime comedy, bizarre assassins must come together to unravel the puzzle of Stegman's blackmail secret, and why he's already dead on the set of his own porn film. Stegman's secret is somewhere within the rooms of his expansive suburban seventies bungalow, and the cops are already circling. Gus and Evy, two of the central characters, must escape Stegman's house only to discover the true nature of his secret at last, and with it, the awful realization that now... they have to break back in.
Selected to be a part of Perspective Canada at Festival de Cannes
True Love's Kiss
Producer/ Writer: Kathleen Gallagher
Director: Melanie Dahling
Although Jenna is a catch, she is still single and in her thirties. She believes she will be alone forever until fate steps in. Ben, an old flame from her past, comes back into her life. Will Jenna finally have her happily ever after or will Ben's awful fiancee wreck everything? Will true love's kiss arrive in time to solve all our hero's problems? Or will she be doomed to be alone forever?
Distributed through Winnipeg Film Group
Chopin's Heart
Director: BJ Verot
At an international music school, a young cellist and her teacher, an older married man, engage in an ill-fated game of seduction.
Selected for Telefilm's No Short on Talent for Cannes Film Festival
Best Selfie Ever
Producer Writer and Actor: Kathleen Gallagher
Actor: Kevin Ramberran
Crew: Charlene Moore, Meriel Bond, Casahdra Brescacin
Screened at the WNDX Festival of Moving Image