The following is the work of director Dylan McGale
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Tiktaalik
When a creationist congressman comes across the long-extinct missing link in evolution, a waddling flat-headed fish with fins like limbs, he’s got to reconcile with his responsibility, power, and beliefs before he’s ready to let it out of his garage.
Completed June 2018, the film is currently serving it's festival run.
Senior Thesis directed by Dylan McGale
Co-Written by Dylan McGale
Cinematography by Eric Vera
Produced by Sho Schrock-Manabé
Budget: $24,000
How She Fought
How She Fought follows Teresa who needs to prove to her father that she got put on academic probation for doing what's right. Her private university is profiteering off of the prison industrial complex and she puts it upon her self to stop it.
Completed May 2017, the film is currently serving it's festival run.
Junior Thesis directed by Dylan McGale
Co-Written by Dylan McGale
Cinematography by Eric Vera
Budget: $4,500
Documentary directed by Dylan McGale
Primary cinematography and editing by
Dylan McGale
*Best Documentary*
CineYouth Chicago International Film Festival
Budget: $8,000
CURIOUS KALEO
Kaleo Cruz is an autistic 15-year old from Santa Ana who’s endured 5 open-heart surgeries and 18 skin cancer removal surgeries among other life-threatening ailments and how drawing, painting and animation give him the peace he needs to feel like a normal boy.
Completed April 2017
Mile Down Lake Street
When Rane is framed by his drug dealer, he discovers how little his version of the story is trusted. It doesn't matter how he's dressed, how he speaks, or where he's from.
Completed May 2016
Sophomore “Intermediate Production”
directed by Dylan McGale
written by Dylan McGale
The Sundance Institute's festival for filmmakers 24 & under, Sundance Ignite, selected Mile Down Lake Street as one of the 25 finalists among 3,000 entries.
Budget: $600