
Gillian McKercher
Directing
Known For

Strung together by the Catholic Church, a confession booth, and the Rosary, All Saints is a voyeuristic and light-hearted character study and commentary on womanhood, religion, and culture.
All Saints

As Middleview High School's woeful boys basketball team prepares for another certain loss, several unusual dramas take shape around its periphery.
Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game

When reformed gambler Lucky falls victim to a tax scam, he returns to playing poker to make the money back while his family struggles to make ends meet.
Lucky Star

Through the eyes of ex-engineer, now filmmaker Gillian McKercher, Orphaned explores the huge task of cleaning up thousands of idle oil and gas wells in the prairies before it's too late.
Orphaned

12 short stories about the weird and wandering denizens of the city of Calgary, Canada. From a broken hearted immortal cowboy, to a teenage girl on the train, to an addict escaping his room. This experimental meditation on dreaming asks: Do we dream of the city, or does the city dream of us?
Everybody Altogether Now

When layoffs are announced at a remote oilfield office, team morale deteriorates with both humorous, and heartbreaking, results. With support, and often-questionable guidance from her co-workers, new engineer Wendy must navigate personal ethics and corporate industry within one of the world's most controversial industries.
Circle of Steel

Borrowed From Nature explores the rich and complex history of Japanese gardens in western Canada. Through the principles and design philosophy of famed Japanese Canadian designer Roy Tomomichi Sumi, we visit Japanese gardens in Lethbridge, AB, Vancouver, BC, and New Denver, BC, revealing hidden testaments to an enduring Japanese influence in our country
Borrowed from Nature

When a storm traps divorced parents Ron and Gina overnight in their daughter’s home, awkwardness turns to intimacy.
With Feeling

Zara, a lawyer haunted by Christmas memories, attends a Victorian dinner where she meets Rafe, a renovator. His ghostly ancestor plays matchmaker by giving Zara a book of love stories, challenging her skepticism about romance.
A Dickens of a Christmas

After Joseph is released from jail, he faces inner demons that stand in the way of true freedom.
Conviction

A recently divorced woman struggles through a particularly difficult day as her city is periodically swarmed by bees.
Bee Problem

In 2009, an anonymous notebook containing 200 stories of occult and magical phenomena was found at the University of Calgary. Since appearing online, the stories have formed new mythologies around the seemingly mundane city of Calgary.
The 200 Phenomena of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

After Rebecca dies by suicide, her three best friends try to reach her through a seance.
Rebecca's Room

This short documentary looks at “shadow work”: tasks that are not part of an employee’s official job description, but are necessary for the organization to function, and may be paid and unseen. Unpaid labour, shadow work, glue work, organizational citizenship. Whatever you name it, organizations benefit from it.