Gail Harvey is a Canadian film and television director based in Toronto, Ontario.Rita Zekas, "At home with celebrity photographer and director Gail Harvey". Toronto Star, October 14, 2017. She is most noted as director of the television film No One Would Tell, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction in a TV Movie at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.Brent Furdyk, "Canadian Screen Awards: Winners Announced For Scripted Drama, Comedy Categories". ET Canada, May 27, 2020.
She began her career as a photojournalist with United Press International, becoming noted when she accompanied Terry Fox on the Marathon of Hope and took many of the best-known photographs of Fox.Janis Cleugh, "Terry Fox Run: Photog remembers Marathon of Hope". Tri-City News, September 10, 2018. After directing the short documentary film Uphill in a Wheelchair: The Wayne Pronger Story in 1987,Rita Zekas, "East meets Queen St. West at Bam Boo bash". Toronto Star, September 16, 1987. she enrolled at the Canadian Film Centre in 1988;"Film school chooses new class". The Globe and Mail, November 30, 1988. the following year she released her student film Exposed, a short film written by her CFC classmate Edwina Follows.Nancy Wood, "Shelley Peterson plays stripper in new movie with Green Gables star". Toronto Star, August 27, 1989.
She released her debut feature film, The Shower, in 1992.Rita Zekas, "Shower power: Film Centre grad makes movie". Toronto Star, August 28, 1992.
She subsequently directed the films Cold Sweat,"Cold Sweat brings together Cross, Thomas, Czerny, Zann". Halifax Daily News, April 18, 1993. Striking Poses,"Devlin and Divine intervention". Toronto Star, June 16, 1999. Looking Is the Original Sin and Never Saw It Coming.Patrick Hipes, "Emily Hampshire To Star In Indie ‘Never Saw It Coming’". Deadline Hollywood, March 23, 2017.
She has worked predominantly in television, directing episodes of television series such as Liberty Street, Train 48, Paradise Falls, ReGenesis, The Best Years, The Line, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries, Lost Girl, Heartland, Carter, Family Law, Pretty Hard Cases and Sullivan's Crossing.
From her marriage to journalist Kevin Boland, she is the mother of actress Katie Boland."A rock 'n' roll chick in girlie clothing". Toronto Star, January 20, 2007.
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