Episode 04

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 attended the American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow after receiving the AUDI Fellowship for Women which sponsors one promising female director with a full-tuition scholarship for the program. Giselle is a 2023 Telluride FilmLAB Fellow and 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. Her AFI thesis film THE BULLFIGHTER exec produced by THE CINEGOGUE will be premiering at 2023's AFI Fest.

This episode features music by ⁠⁠⁠Scarlett⁠⁠⁠.