Gene Gallerano

Gene Gallerano is an Emmy, Grammy, and Peabody Award-winning producer, filmmaker, and actor whose work spans from heart-pounding adventure stories to deeply human character studies.

He got his start in Hollywood with a small acting role in Wes Anderson's cult classic Bottle Rocket, and since then his films, both narrative and documentary, have traveled the world, premiering from Anchorage to Berlin. His projects feature a remarkable roster of talent, including Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Denis O'Hare, Olympia Dukakis, Reed Birney, Paul Benjamin, and Lorelei Linklater.

Gene is the writer, director, and actor of the creature feature The Yeti, a character-driven monster movie that blends Americana and myth, starring Brittany Allen (Dexter: Original Sin), Eric Nelsen (1883), Corbin Bernsen (LA Law, Psych, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption), Christina Bennett Lind (House of Cards, Atlanta), Heather Lind (TURN, Demolition, Your Friends and Neighbors), and Jim Cummings (Thunder Road).