
Giselle Bonilla
Acting
Biography
Giselle Bonilla was born as Giselle Hernandez Bonilla. She is an actress and writer, known for Freedom Writers (2007), Bad Company (2018) and Virgencita (2018).
Known For

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Grey's Anatomy

The misadventures of three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company and their drug dealer.
Workaholics

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Freedom Writers

When a frustrated playwright/middle school theater teacher finds out his ex-girlfriend has started dating his nemesis, the school's principal, he decides to ruin the principal's chances of winning the Blue Ribbon of Academic Excellence.
The Musical

Troubled teens in a 2nd chance 'bootcamp' program encounter a group of terrorists trying to take out a rural nuclear power plant. Stuck in remote area with no skills or communication to the outside world, the teens find they are the only thing that can stop a nuclear threat.
Bad Company

At a shiva with her parents, a college student runs into her sugar daddy.
Shiva Baby

A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential campaign. While John becomes obsessed with the ideal of change that Obama represents for Americans, he has in turn neglected to create positive change in his own life, particularly with regard to his health and familial relationships. John hides his health problems from his strong, yet supportive wife, Molly, creating a strain on their marriage. John seeks the support of a Republican relative, MLK, who initially starkly resists supporting a Democratic candidate. John's son, Kalil, rebels against his father's avid support of Obama by supporting the Republican candidate as well. John neglects to support his daughter, Tamika, at a crucial moment in her life...
The Obama Effect

Set within the embrace of an intimate group of friends in college, Ace follows the emotional journey of a shy newcomer who discovers an attraction to longstanding group-member Z that he can neither ignore nor fully embrace. As the connection between Ace and Z intensifies, so to does the silence that both illuminates their fears and fuels their insecurities. Though the attraction between them appears unmistakable, their inability to acknowledge and express their feelings for each other openly threatens to sever the powerful bond that draws them instinctively to each other.
Ace

A woman's failed attempt at masturbating leaves her accused of being suicidal.
Virgencita

Over a period of many years, a father takes a peculiar approach to parenting his Indian-American son.
Saltwater

The story of four women living under the same roof dealing with their own demons, a cheating husband and a soap star whose untimely visit manages to get stuck in the middle of it all.
Hollywood Familia

A man's life is thrown into turmoil when his sex doll gets a little too attached to him.
Stuck

Set on a barren planet, a creature named Mort’s daily routine is interrupted by the crash landing of a human spaceship.
Mort

TriKe is a visual representation of the chaos we shape in order to thrive within the fullness of ourselves. Our film uses absurdity to scandalize our explicit vulnerability in a public space. TriKe is a celebration of our childlike sensibility to find the erotic in the mundane, and the power within our complexities.
TriKE

A farcical comedy about ex-bullfighter, Felipe Fernando de la Fernand, a once extraordinary figure now trapped in an ordinary world. He gets a job as a parking attendant to stage one final bullfight… triggering a past he’s yet to reckon with.
The Bullfighter

A tenant releases a rat from its trap, unleashing chaos in her apartment complex.
Rata
A man gets stuck in a sex doll who has become attached to him romantically.