Gabriel Garton
Directing
Biography
Gabriel Garton is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and a nonfiction film and television editor, writer and producer. He is based in New York City. His documentary feature film, Shayni in the Sky (2025), was a finalist for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscar-Qualifying Doc Edge Festival in New Zealand. He edited the 4-part series, When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2023) for NBC Studios, the groundbreaking 5-part series Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space (2021) for Netflix, and produced and edited the documentary feature film, Wild Home (2014), which won the Audience Award at the Camden International Film Festival. Gabriel's short documentary, Covid Nurses (2020) won Best Documentary at the Coney Island Film Festival, the Hometown Hero Award at the Brooklyn Independent Film Festival, and the Award of Merit in the Best Shorts Competition. He volunteers his time mentoring students on the art of documentary film editing in Queens, New York.
Known For
From training to launch to landing, this all-access docuseries rides along with the Inspiration4 crew on the first all-civilian orbital space mission.
Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space
For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and explained diversity, equity, and inclusion around the globe by using the universal tools of music, empathy and celebrity. Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days reflects upon the efforts that have earned the show respect and qualification around the globe. The special also chronicles the creation and introduction of a Black family of Sesame Street Muppets, Wes and Elijah Walker, a father-and-son duo who are at the heart of Sesame Workshop’s new racial justice initiative Coming Together.
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
The origins of the Brooklyn-born altar boy who leaned conservative, even as the civil rights era was flourishing all around him. Giuliani’s stark view of good and evil makes him a relentless prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
The story of January 6, 2021, where approximately 2000 people stormed the US Capitol to stop the certification of the Electoral College Votes, killing some and leaving over 140 injured. A firestorm of angst, anger, violence and confusion.
Split Screen
As a couple searches a remote corner of Pennsylvania for their missing daughter, family secrets spill out into the open, fracturing everyone's sense of reality.
Doorstep
Follow regular people as they turn their curiosity, excitement and love of the skies into extraordinary feats of aviation.
On The Fly: Adventures at Altitude
A BASE jumper from New Zealand returns to the Norwegian mountain where her husband, also a BASE jumper, had a fatal accident. She carries his ashes, their newborn baby, and their memories on her journey of life after death.
Shayni in the Sky
A documentary short film that gives space to four New York City nurses on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis, to meditate on their thoughts, experiences, feelings and concerns as the country begins to lift restrictions. This raw and intimate film is a time capsule for a moment in history.
Covid Nurses
Isaiah "TriForce" Johnson is a competitive gamer whose parents came to the U.S. from Jamaica. He grew up in New York City, running from arcade to arcade with his friends. In 2003, the group formed a network called 'Empire Arcadia' and they have since become gaming champions. Now in his mid-30s, TriForce goes face-to-face with his triumphs and failures.
Triforce
Documentary about Bob Miner, a Vietnam veteran who has found his way back to the world through raising abused tigers and lions in the woods of Maine.