River Gallo
Acting
Biography
River Gallo is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model and intersex activist from New Jersey.
Born: May 18, 1990
Place of Birth: New Jersey, USA
Known For
Out of the Corner of Our Eye
A short, poetic reflection on seven iconic, formerly queer spaces in Los Angeles that are no longer what they once were.
Love, Victor
Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.
Ponyboi
An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
Ponyboi
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
Fixed
After learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.
Every Body
Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.
Pool Boy
River Gallo stars as a non-binary pool cleaner who attracts the attention of a former high school athlete.
Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs in Their Limpias?
A California barrio is on the brink of eradication after most of the community leaves behind their bodies and the pain of carbon-based life by uploading their consciousness to the Internet. Now, one of the few remaining residents, a lonely queer, gender fluid, Indigenous curandera/healer who has lost their magic, must convince their last living friend, an anti-uploading activist, to support their decision to upload their consciousness and leave their body behind.
Piercing
Adrian is a straight-passing trans guy who pierces his ear to impress his crush. When his earring elicits homophobic slurs from a passing car, he decides to confront his harasser to prove his own machismo.
We Are Pat
Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a child, filmmaker Ro Haber became obsessed with Pat—a character whose popularity stemmed from making others uncomfortable by defying gender norms. Decades later, and now an out trans filmmaker, Haber still grapples with Pat’s legacy. Thirty-five years after It’s Pat first aired, Haber assembles a group of queer and trans comedians, writers, and even Sweeney herself to revisit the character. Through conversation and critique, they aim not to erase Pat but to reframe them, transforming a symbol of ridicule into one of reflection and empowerment.
Filmography
as Frankie (voice)
as Ponyboi
as Self
as Self
as Kim
as Ponyboi