Acting
River Gallo
Born
1990-05-18 (36)
Place of birth
New Jersey, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
16 titles
River Gallo is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model and intersex activist from New Jersey.
Known for
8.6Victor 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.
Love, Victor
2020
6.2After learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.
Fixed
2025
SUPERFAKE is a gritty, sun-soaked comedy about a trans woman who discovers her boyfriend, and the designer bag he gave her - might be fake. This film humanizes trans women through humor, with a premise everyone can relate to - the search for something real in a world obsessed with appearances.
Superfake
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8.0An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
Ponyboi
2019
2.8River Gallo stars as a non-binary pool cleaner who attracts the attention of a former high school athlete.
Pool Boy
2021
7.0Pat, 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.
We Are Pat
2025
Film credits
2020s · 9 titles
6.2After learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.
Fixed
2025
2.8River Gallo stars as a non-binary pool cleaner who attracts the attention of a former high school athlete.
Pool Boy
2021
7.0Pat, 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.
We Are Pat
2025
NRAdrian 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.
Piercing
2022
7.0Unfolding 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.
Ponyboi
2025
5.2Three 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.
Every Body
2023
NRIn a near-future world where engineered emotions have replaced real experience, a corporation sells “feels” distilled from social media memories. When a partner deletes their online past, a memory technician finds their relationship suddenly incompatible, as if it never existed. But as demand outpaces supply, the company begins harvesting the memories of its own workers, forcing them to confront a world where the more you feel, the less it’s yours.
The Feels - Or The Debilitated Condition of the Reproductive System
2026
1.3A 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.
Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs in Their Limpias?
2023
10.0A short, poetic reflection on seven iconic, formerly queer spaces in Los Angeles that are no longer what they once were.
Out of the Corner of Our Eye
2023
Series credits
Behind the camera
SUPERFAKE is a gritty, sun-soaked comedy about a trans woman who discovers her boyfriend, and the designer bag he gave her - might be fake. This film humanizes trans women through humor, with a premise everyone can relate to - the search for something real in a world obsessed with appearances.
Superfake
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8.0An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
Ponyboi
2019
8.0An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
Ponyboi
2019
7.0Unfolding 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.
Ponyboi
2025
7.0Unfolding 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.
Ponyboi
2025