Biography
River Gallo is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model and intersex activist from New Jersey.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ponyboi
2025
as Ponyboi
Unfolding 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...
Ponyboi
2025
Producer, Writer
Unfolding 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...
Fixed
2025
as Frankie (voice)
Bull, an average, all-around good dog, discovers he’s going to be neutered in the morning! As the gravity of this life-altering event sets in, Bull re...
We Are Pat
2025
as Self
Pat, the evasive, androgynous character made famous on Saturday Night Live by Julia Sweeney, was an inescapable figure in 1990s pop culture. As a chil...
Out of the Corner of Our Eye
2023
A short, poetic reflection on seven iconic, formerly queer spaces in Los Angeles that are no longer what they once were.
Every Body
2023
as Self
Three intersex individuals overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ig...
Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs in Their Limpias?
2023
as Ria
A 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 uploadi...
Piercing
2022
Adrian 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 deci...
Pool Boy
2021
River Gallo stars as a non-binary pool cleaner who attracts the attention of a former high school athlete.
Ponyboi
2019
as Ponyboi
An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
Ponyboi
2019
Director, Writer
An intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.