About

Gloria Mercer is a director and editor from Vancouver. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University with a major in film and a minor in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. She has directed several award-winning short films that have screened at festivals worldwide including the Vancouver Women in Film and Television Festival, Whistler Film Festival, and Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival. She has edited many other films that have screened at film festivals worldwide. Her latest short film, HEKADEMIA, was awarded support from the National Film Board of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts and won Best Sci-Fi at the Oscar-Qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival. In 2018 she founded the production company See Horse Films with her partner Aidan West. Together, the two of them are developing a feminist thriller that Gloria will direct and produce, titled A SAFE DISTANCE, slated to film in 2022. They filmed a short proof of concept set to be released in 2021. Gloria seeks to expand upon representations of women by making films that interrogate gender and foreground complicated female characters. Her work examines themes of loneliness, self-discovery, and relationships between women. She is passionate about featuring more women in front of and behind the camera, and fostering new talent in the BC film industry.