Border City Pictures was established in 2004 by award-winning director/shooter Matt Gallagher and Academy Award-nominated producer Cornelia Principe. With the release of SHAMED, together, they have produced eight critically acclaimed documentaries.
MATT GALLAGHER - Director/Shooter
Matt Gallagher has been directing and shooting feature documentaries and series for over 20 years. His stories have brought him far and wide -- embedding him in the diverse worlds of priests, prisons, and poker players, to name a few. Matt’s documentaries are character-driven narratives that explore both the struggles and the triumphs of the human condition.
Matt’s most recent feature release, PREY, won the Roger’s Audience Award and DGC Jury Prize at Hot Docs 2019. PREY continued to screen and collect awards at festivals around the world and was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards and the DGC’s Allan King Award.
Matt has made films for Arte/ZDF, BBC, CBC, VICE, TVO, Documentary Channel, Bravo, History Channel, Discovery, and the National Film Board of Canada.
CORNELIA PRINCIPE – Producer/ Director/ Writer
CORNELIA PRINCIPE is a Don Haig Award winning producer and has been nominated for an Oscar®, Emmy and Peabody. Her documentary films have collectively screened at well over 100 national and international film festivals, been broadcast all over the world, and have garnered numerous awards and distinctions including: an Academy Award® Nomination for Best Feature Documentary; Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story; Peabody nomination for Documentary; Best Documentary Feature, Jury Award Winner, Tribeca Film Festival; Best Canadian Documentary, Hot Docs; Audience Choice Award, Hot Docs; TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten; Ted Rogers Best Feature Documentary, Canadian Screen Awards; Sundance Film Forward Program.
Cornelia is currently releasing the feature documentaries SHAMED and Russians at War. Russians at War had its’ world premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2024, followed by the North American premiere at TIFF. Other credit hi-lights include To Kill a Tiger (2022), which premiered at TIFF 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, and more recently a 96th Academy Award® nomination, Peabody nomination and the CSA Ted Rogers Best Feature Documentary; the award-winning feature PREY (2019); the Emmy-nominated documentary The World Before Her (2012); and the award-winning documentary series Diamond Road (2008).