Gabriella Canal

Gabriella Canal is a documentary filmmaker and journalist originally from Florida, living in Brooklyn. Inspired by her upbringing in a Colombian-American household, she produces character-driven stories rooted in identity and belonging with a fo- cus on women's voices. As a producer, she's worked with The Atlantic, John Leguizamo's NGL Studios and Insignia Films. Her independent work as a director, DP and editor has been featured in The New Yorker, The Video Consortium, New York Women in Film and Television and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. Her latest short documentary, Seasons, about a mother-daughter relationship that grapples with the legacy and future of their farm, won a Student Academy Award. Her first short documentary, No Man's Land, about a lesbian separatist community won The Audience Award at The Florida Film Festival. A series she co-produced with Hayden5 about undocumented immigrants grappling with life after deportation, will be released on PBS POV this fall. In 2022, she became a Pulitzer Center Fellow and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. For as long as she can remember, she's been her family's archivist. At countless dinner tables, she's drawn inspiration from their complex histories in Spanish and English, making sense of her own identity.