Kirk Gillon — Documentary Filmmaker

Selected Works

In Post-Production · Feature Documentary

Granice Są w Głowie
(Limits Are in the Mind)

Filmed across Rio de Janeiro and Chicago, the story of Polish ultra-triathlete Jurand Czabański and his solo 50X Ironman challenge — one of the most extreme feats of human endurance ever attempted. A film about the body, the mind, and the singular philosophy that you cannot find your limits if you have a choice. In Polish, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French.

Director · Producer · Writer

Completing Now · Short Documentary

Throw Don't Go
The Legacy of Aden Perry

A short documentary portrait of Sarah Perry and the Hero Life Ring Initiative — a nonprofit born from the loss of a son, and the flotation device that now bears his name.

Director · Producer · Writer

Completed · Feature Documentary

Let Love Guide Your Way

The Art of Lloyd Goradesky. A portrait of a sculptor whose monumental public work carries a quiet, radical message — and the story of how love becomes permanent in steel and stone.

Director · Producer · Writer

Ongoing Series

Extraordinary Humanity

A monthly series of short documentary portraits — three minutes, one subject, one quiet act of significance. People who make a difference without asking to be noticed.

Creator · Director · Producer

Feature Documentary

Chasing 7

A 1980s Miami high school baseball coach sent seven players to the pros — then became their agent. A story about ambition, loyalty, and the long arc of a life in the game.

Director · Producer · Writer

Feature Documentary

Breaking Bread

A 91-year-old man is arrested for feeding the homeless. A story about compassion, the law, and the limits of civic authority in America.

Director · Producer · Writer

Feature Documentary

Ramu
An Immigrant's Story

An 11-year-old boy runs away from his village in Nepal to work in India — carrying the weight of his family's debt on his small shoulders.

Director · Producer · Writer

1991 · PBS / Network

After the War
Bill Moyers

Landmark network documentary examining the human cost of armed conflict. One of several cinematographers on a defining PBS production by journalist Bill Moyers.

Cinematographer

duPont–Columbia Award for Journalism

In Development — Narrative Features

Narrative Feature

HEX

A successful attorney returns to Haiti to reclaim his childhood home and unwittingly awakens a dark force rooted in the land itself. A psychological thriller set against Haitian voodoo folklore — where cultural identity, inheritance, and the supernatural collide in a fight for his family's survival.

Writer · Director

Narrative Feature

Cottonwood

A domestic violence counselor races to the hospital after a devastating call — a mother and her ten-year-old daughter, victims of the worst kind of violence. But Rebecca carries her own wound: her mother was murdered by her stepfather 22 years ago, and the man was never arrested. Now, with a killer in reach, she has to decide how far justice can go before it becomes something else entirely.

Writer · Director

Narrative Feature

Sweetgrass Don't Die

After 28 years of absence, Beau returns to Savannah to bury a father he barely knew. He rekindles a childhood flame with Leigh, who runs the town's dive bar, and reconnects with Mantee — an old Gullah Geechee fisherman who seems to hold the thread back to everything Beau lost. As Mantee guides him toward peace and the secret of life, Beau makes a discovery that changes everything: Mantee was never really there. A spirit sent to help him find his way home.

Writer · Director

About

Shaped by
the world.
Rooted in
people.

40+

Years in Production

Years Based in Europe

Languages — EN · PT · ES

Kirk Gillon is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, director, cinematographer, and writer with more than four decades of professional experience across three continents. Working across documentary and narrative, he began shooting 16mm black-and-white reversal film as a teenager in North Carolina and has never stopped looking for the frame that tells the truth.

His early career in broadcast television led him to one of his first landmark projects: working as a cinematographer on Bill Moyers' After the War (1991), which earned the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for Journalism. Shortly after, he relocated to Lisbon, Portugal, where he spent nearly 15 years working as a director, producer, and cinematographer across Europe — including a documentary series for TVI Portugal shot across Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam in 1993. That international foundation, deepened by years of return trips to Vietnam and extensive time in Rio de Janeiro, shapes every project KGFilms undertakes.

He is a solo and minimal-crew filmmaker by philosophy, not circumstance. His approach centers on direct connection, intimate interview dynamics, and vérité storytelling — finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives and the revealing detail in unguarded moments. Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, he brings a rare ability to build trust across cultures and languages.

Today Kirk is based in the Miami / Fort Lauderdale area, operating KGFilms, Inc. and developing several long-form film projects with international scope — both documentary and narrative. His Extraordinary Humanity series continues monthly on YouTube, profiling the people who quietly change the world.

KirkGillon

Selected Works

In Development — Narrative Features

About

Credentials

Let’s make
a film.

KirkGillon

Selected Works

In Development — Narrative Features

About

Credentials

Let’s makea film.

Let’s make
a film.