River Gallo (they/them) is a GLAAD Award-winning filmmaker, actor, writer, model, and intersex rights activist whose groundbreaking work is redefining queer representation in cinema.
Gallo wrote, produced, and starred in PONYBOI, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and won NewFest’s Grand Jury Award. Their performance as a young intersex sex worker on the run from the mob earned them the Best Performance Award at the Torino Film Festival. Marking a historic first, PONYBOI is the first narrative feature film created by and starring an intersex person in an intersex role.
They were also the subject of the critically-acclaimed feature documentary EVERY BODY from Academy Award-nominated director Julie Cohen. Prior to their feature debut, River starred in multiple short films, a stage production of King Lear at the Annenberg Theater in Los Angeles, as well as an episode of the Hulu series Love, Victor.
PONYBOI is screening on Friday, June 13, at 1:30pm at Town Hall, and River Gallo will receive the Next Wave Award during the Q&A.