Talent Guide

Katie Galloway

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2009, Grants and Awards 2009

Bio

Katie Galloway is an award winning filmmaker and 2010 Sundance Fellow who has produced and directed more than 20 hours of cinema verite documentary films and series for PBS Frontline and POV, among others. Her feature documentary Prison Town, USA (POV, 2007) called “documentary making at its best” by The San Francisco Chronicle and “intriguing” by The New York Times, was developed as a fiction series by IFC, for which she co-wrote the first 3 episodes. She is currently in production (with Kelly Duane de la Vega) on the feature documentary Better This World, which follows the intriguing journey of two childhood friends from Midland, Texas who set out to prove the strength of their political convictions to themselves and a revolutionary activist turned FBI informant. A 2009 HBO Documentary Films/Film Independent Fellow, Galloway taught documentary production at the Columbia Journalism School and now teaches Media Studies at U.C. Berkeley, where she is also the filmmaker in residence at the Journalism School’s Investigative Reporting Program.

Current Project

Better This World (Documentary Feature)

Logline

Better This World follows the intriguing journey of two childhood friends from Midland, Texas who set out to prove their manhood to themselves and a revolutionary activist--turned FBI informant. The result: eight homemade bombs, multiple domestic terrorism charges, and a controversial entrapment defense.