Giselle Bonilla is a Los Angeles native who started her career as a child actor, but felt unfulfilled and limited by the lack of opportunities for Latinxs in comedy and transitioned to writing and directing them herself. She was able to attend the AFI Conservatory after receiving the AUDI Fellowship for Women which sponsors one promising female director with a full-tuition scholarship for the program. Giselle received a spot in the 2023 Telluride FilmLAB and is an alum of the Sundance Institute as a 2020 Ignite x Adobe Fellow. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where her undergrad thesis film VIRGENCITA received the Horizon Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.