Giselle Bonilla is a 2023 American Film Institute Conservatory Directing Fellow and recipient of the AUDI Fellowship for Women, which selects one promising female director to receive a full-tuition scholarship for the two year MFA program. Her AFI Thesis Film, "The Bullfighter", received the Student DGA Grand Prize Award. She is an alum of the Sundance Institute as a 2020 Ignite x Adobe Fellow. Giselle received her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where her undergrad thesis film "Virgencita" which she wrote, directed, and starred in received the Horizon Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.