About

Author, screenwriter-director and visual artist. Gallen majored in Media Studies to then attend film school at NYFA Los Angeles and ECAM Madrid. Her work has been showcased at MoMA PS 1 as part of the New York Art Book Fair, Sprint Milano or the Center for Creative Communications (CCC) in Japan, to name a few.



Excelling for her self-initiated oracular projects tied to the arts and fashion industries, a gaining recognition acknowledged Gallen as one of Spain’s high-profile creatives in her early 20s. In 2011 she had her first solo show Kyrie Eleison in Aix-en-Provence, France. In 2014, her cross-media project Sacred Geometry was featured at polish collective show Longing for Tesla in BWA Wrocław Gallery as part of the European Culture Congress. She went on to co-curate Girls! Why did you decide to start a band? at MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castille & Leon in 2016, a multi-channel video installation reflecting on gender bias within the music industry. 

Her way into the field of cinema began as production designer of award-winning horror Disco Inferno and Goya-candidate feature documentary Oscuro y Lucientes (Tourmalet Films, RTVE, Marmita Films, France Télévisions), both celebrated for their sleek aesthetics. Stepping up from freelance art direction for CANADA, Reebok, 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, ELISAVA School of Design or Camperlab, she pursued her calling to direct music videos, commercial and experimental films. Her filmmaking client list includes Universal Music, ZARA MAN, Meliá Hotels International or Schön Magazine.

Gallen understands cinema as ritual and writing as excavation, for her work goes beyond storytelling, summoning history, personal experience, and cultural memory. She has lectured at cultural centers La Casa Encendida, Fundación Mapfre or CentroCentro in Madrid and most recently, in Mexico City as part of the Decididas summit. She was a judge to ADG Laus Awards and a professor at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Fashion Comm Masters. She expanded her media background at italian GenZ platform Freeda, with a focus on women and diversity. But her writing is best known for her first non-fiction book, El Diablo es una mujer (2021, Lunwerg Editores/Grupo Planeta), that restores the myth of the femme fatale. Gallen writes screenplays, creative non-fiction and poetry, and every other moon edits independent artists’ books, now under The Arch Éditions.

Her methodology derives from a spectrum of disciplinary artistic fields and her corpus of work reflects a commitment to contribute to a thought-provoking creative landscape and a broader discourse on representation. She is developing spec biopic Garbo (rated 8 on The Black List, 2nd rounder at Sundance Development Track 2023) and Spanish folk horror Les Malignes, selected at L’ALTERNATIVA Independent Film Festival of Barcelona and Terror Molins Horror Film Festival 2024, where it was awarded. Her first book is to be adapted to the screen with Anónima Media, led by mexican actress and producer Eréndira Ibarra (Sense8, Matrix Revolutions). ︎︎︎ Variety.com