Gillian Wallace Horvat
Gillian Wallace Horvat is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, writer and film programmer.
Her first short film, GUNPLAY, was a 2007 Wasserman Semi-Finalist and the only film to ever receive a disclaimer for graphic content at Tisch’s First Run Film Festival. KISS KISS FINGERBANG, starring Anton Yelchin, Kate Lyn Sheil and Buck Henry was awarded the Jury Prize in its short category at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival, premiering online as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Miriam Bale wrote in Indiewire that Gillian was one of “the most exciting American indie filmmakers I can think of.” Her films have screened in festivals around the world including SXSW, Fantasia, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Beyond Fest, Maryland Film Festival, Yale University, and many others.
Gillian also produced A FULLER LIFE, a documentary on the life and films of director Samuel Fuller that premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival. For the past five years she has been producing documentary shorts for Arrow Films, Kino Lorber and Olive Films, working on projects ranging from an AMERICAN NINJA box set to Orson Welles’ MACBETH. She is also a guest columnist for Filmmaker magazine and her writing has appeared in Sight & Sound.
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