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Currently open for hire on documentary features, shorts, series and commercial work.

Hi! My name is Leah Galant. I’m currently a Fulbright Scholar based between Berlin and New York specializing in documentary directing with additional experience as a cinematographer and editor.  

I want my work to widen perspectives through unexpected narratives. Past projects have featured stories on prison re-entry, abortion, and Holocaust elder stories.

My background includes becoming a 2017 Sundance Ignite Fellow which offers an intensive year long mentorship program for emerging filmmakers and a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Fellow.

My work has been featured on the NY Times, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Salon, MovieMaker Magazine and earned Vimeo Staff Picks..

While a student at Ithaca College, I was named Variety magazine's "110 Students to Watch in Film and Media" for my work on The Providerand Beyond the Wall.  The Provider is about the story of a traveling abortion provider in Texas.  The Provider won a Student Emmy Award and screened at various festivals including SXSW and Palm Springs Shortfest.  I was the Fall 2016 inaugural Sally Burns Shenkman Women Filmmaker Fellow at Jacob Burns Film Center where I completed my latest projects  Kitty and Ellen (DOC NYC 2017) and Death Metal Grandma (SXSW 2018, NY Times Op-Docs) which won Best Documentary at the American Pavilion during the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2021 I was named one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40.

My debut feature film On The Divide is premiering in Documentary Competition at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and will broadcast on POV PBS April 18th.