Since entering the field of documentary filmmaking in 2012, Gayle Nosal has directed and produced award-winning films about young women refugees in Uganda, a community living off the grid on a wolf refuge in southern Colorado, and a re-entry program for women and men who were previously incarcerated. She co-founded Needle&Frame, a filmmaking and arts collective that builds solidarity, unites communities and inspires courageous action toward positive social transformation. The most recent project is STRONGER THAN COFFEE (Más que un Café), a series of short documentary participatory films written, directed and filmed by smallholder women coffee producers in Costa Rica.

Between 2020- 2021 Gayle created RELISH | relinquish, a collaborative, multimedia, interpretive exhibit focused on one woman’s experience living with late-stage Alzheimer’s dementia, installed and exhibited at the Dana L. Wiley Gallery in Dayton, OH.