Hi! My name is Leah Galant. I’m member-owner of Meerkat Media, specializing in documentary directing with additional experience as a cinematographer and editor.
I want my work to widen perspectives through unexpected narratives.
My debut feature film On The Divide premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on POV PBS.
I was named one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 and spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar.
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 and 2017 Sundance Ignite Fellow 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.
My new feature film on collective memory is current in production.