Gabriela Garcia Medina is a Cuban-American writer/director. Her short films LITTLE CON LILI (2019) and THE 90 DAY PLAN (2010), both distributed with HBOMax. Gabriela's musical comedy BERTIE THE BRILLIANT (2023) distributed with PBS; In 2024 Gabriela wrote/produced and directed WHAT TO EXPECT (a 12-minute short filmed almost entirely in a single-shot) made in collaboration with Latino Public Broadcasting, currently touring festivals, and distributing with PBS (2025). Gabriela’s feature film LITTLE CON LILI was one of top five screenplays on the LatinX List (2023), optioned by Netflix (2021-2023). Gabriela’s feature screenplay SKRRRT! is the winner of The Athena List’s Disney Development Grant (2024), and she was one of the narrative filmmakers selected for the inaugural Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films/Netflix Proof of Concept Accelerator (2024-2025). Gabriela’s feature film FOR YOUR OWN GOOD was top-five for TriBeCa and AT&T’s Untold Stories $1M production grant, where she pitched in front of a live-audience and a green-light committee at TriBeCa 2024, and it's currently in development with Gina Rodriguez's Production Company (I Can and I Will) and with Unapologetic Projects. Gabriela's feature THE KIDNAPPING OF CASIMIRO CORONADO was developed through Rideback Rise (2024). Gabriela won the NFMLA Filmmaker of the Year (2023). She is a Rideback Rise fellow (2024). A National Association for Latino Arts and Cultures fellow (2024), an Academy of Motion Picture, Arts & Sciences Film Accelerator fellow (2022), a Film Independent Directing Lab fellow (2020), and a Hedgebrook Screenwriting Lab fellow (2016). Gabriela received her BFA from UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, with a major in Theater, and a double minor in Chicano/a Studies and African American Studies. She holds two MFA degrees from California Institute of the Arts.

Prior to being a filmmaker, Gabriela was a spoken word poet. She has performed at over 1000 colleges and universities and has opened the stage for artists including Pitbull, Mos Def, and the Black-Eyed Peas, as well as for social/political figures including Kamala Harris, and Maxine Waters.