
SHORT FILMS
skrrrt! (2025)
A group of high school frenemies plotting a massive car-heist, must convince an uppity salesman at a supercar dealership to let one of the girls test-drive a supercar.
STATUS: In pre-production. Shooting Nov 22-25, 2024
Financed through the Dirty Films, Netflix and Annenberg Inclusionist Proof of Concept Accelerator.
Little Con Lili (2019)
Perpetually scheming 10-year-old Lili would much rather eat junk food and jam out to Air Supply than do her homework. But when her mom comes home early from work, Lili must think fast to pull off her biggest con yet.
DISTRIBUTOR: HBOMax (2019-2021). Optioned by Netflix (2021-2023)
#blessed (2024)
In Post-Production: Coming Soon
A feminist, martial-arts, neo-screwball action-comedy about a love-obsessed woman who becomes a karate master, in order to save the love of her life from getting bullied by two douchebag/ex-luchadores. (Think Coen-Bros, meets Kung Fu Hustle, dipped in gold, fuchsia, and leopard-print velour).
Made in collaboration with: Echobend Pictures, and with support from RIDEBACK RISE short film grant.
WHAT TO EXPECT (2024)
After giving birth, a mother deals with her new identity, as she navigates life with her new baby, her husband, and her loud and opinionated inter-racial family.
Made in collaboration with: Latino Public Broadcasting
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
BERTIE THE BRILLIANT(2022)
A young boy takes on chores, and small jobs around his neighborhood, to raise money for a ticket to a magic show; but when his grandma loses her job, he is faced with a difficult decision.
Made in collaboration with: OneFifty (WarnerMedia) & Latino Public Broadcasting
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS
The 90 Day Plan (2020)
A high school student obsessed with heist movies, must convince her best friend to help her rob a bank and save her Abuela (grandma) from getting evicted.
DISTIRBUTOR: HBOMax (2020-2023)
MEDIO SUMMER POEM (2020)
A visual poem on the themes of Love, explored in Gabriela's feature film UN DREAM DE MEDIO SUMMER (in development with MACRO.
Short Films in Development...

CUQUI (2025)
CUQUI is a hard-working, and over-zealous Uber driver, who goes out of her way to get 5-star reviews. But when an uptight, high-strung passenger with an attitude is late for work, will Cuqui be able to do enough to maintain her 5-star rating?
FEATURE FILMS
On the way....

When a love-scorned mother learns that her daughter is engaged, she will do whatever it takes to prove that love will always lead to disappointment.
In development with Unapologetic Projects (DiDi) & Gina Rodriguez' I Can and I Will Productions (2025)
TriBeCa & AT&T Untold Stories (2024) -Official Selection
NALIP Media Accelerator (2024) - Official Selection
Script

A 10 year-old girl, her working class mother, and estranged grifter grandmother must con their way across America, determined to find the girl’s long-lost father.
LITTLE CON LILI feature film is in development with Mandalay Pictures,
In Development
In Development

A story of youthful lovers fated, Complicated by family. A scornful drag queen, causing agony to a fairy king seeking revenge. An idiotic friend with a magic pill, that makes mortals love at will. Conflict ensues, and chaos impends; but all’s well in the end.
UN DREAM DE MEDIO SUMMER is in development with MACRO.
Script

(CASIMIRO): A desperate man will do whatever it takes, to escape the grasp of his overbearing wife, in order to attend a local fantasy role-playing tournament
(JUANITA): A scorned wife, who will go to great lengths to save her loveless marriage.
In development with Rideback Rise
Script

When a disabled Cuban-American teen learns she’s been accepted to Harvard, but can’t afford to go; she gathers a crew of high school frenemies (none of whom have passed their driver's tests), to attempt an impossible super-car heist during Art Basel, Miami.
The Athena List/Disney Development Grant - WINNER (2024)
Cate Blanchett/Dirty Films/Annenberg Inclusionist/Netflix Proof of Concept (2024)
In Development

When a hardworking Cuban-Exile realises that no matter how hard he works, he can never attain the American Dream; he puts his strong work ethic toward orchestrating one of the biggest heists in American History.



ABOUT
Gabriela Garcia Medina is a Cuban-American writer/director. Her short comedy LITTLE CON LILI (2019) won festival awards, distributed with HBOMax (l2019- 2021), and was = optioned by Netflix (2021-2023). Gabriela’s short THE 90 DAY PLAN (2020), won HBO Women in Comedy Festival (2020), and distributed with HBOMax (2020-2023). Gabriela's musical comedy BERTIE THE BRILLIANT (2023) was made in collaboration with WarnerMedia and Latino Public Broadcasting. It won Gabriela the NFMLA Director of the Year (2023), and the film distributed with PBS. (2023-present). Gabriela’s dark- comedy film WHAT TO EXPECT (almost entirely shot in a oner), was made in collaboration with Latino Public Broadcasting and will distribute with PBS (2025). Her heist-action, short comedy, SKRRRT! (2025) was funded by Netflix, produced by Cate Blanchett/Coco Francini (Dirty Films) and will be touring festivals in 2025-2026. Gabriela’s feminist-martial-arts, action, rom-com: #BLESSED (2025) was made through Dan Lin’s Rideback Rise fellowship and is currently in post- production.
Gabriela’s feature LITTLE CON LILI was named top five feature screenplays on the LatinX List (2023), optioned by Netflix (2021-2023). Gabi’s feature script SKRRRT! won The Athena List’s Disney Development Grant (2024). Gabriela's feature THE KIDNAPPING OF CASIMIRO CORONADO was developed through Rideback Rise (2024). 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,. FOR YOUR OWN GOOD is currently in development with Gina Rodriguez's Production Company (I Can and I Will) and with Unapologetic Projects.
Gabriela was one of the 5 narrative Directors selected for the inaugural Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films/Netflix Proof of Concept Accelerator (2024-2025). 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 (2001-2005). She holds two MFA degrees from California Institute of the Arts (2012-2015). 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.
FUN FACTS
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Gabi's first ever job was cleaning restrooms and tables at McDonalds.
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In 2008, Gabi cycled across the United States (from Oregon to Virginia), and in 2010 she rode the AIDS Life-Cycle (from SF- LA) and raised money for the LGBT+ Center in LosAngeles.
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Gabi is a mom of two humans and a dog named Oso (Bear..inSpanish).
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Gabi is a salsa-dancer;shewasamemberofanall- women Cuban-salsa team that competed at international salsa congresses around the world.

Rideback Rise reveals Inaugural cohort (2023-2024)
PRESS

Rideback Rise Sets Inaugural Cohort To Develop Mainstream TV And Film Projects
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Proof of Concept Announces First Class of Filmmakers (2024)
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TriBeCa reveals finalists for Untold Stories

‘Little Con Lili’ Is Like a Cuban-American ‘Matilda’

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Athena Film Festival Reveals 2024 Athena List Winners (Exclusive)
‘Bertie the Brilliant’ movie tells a Latino inspiring story.

Athena List Finalists: SKRRRT! by Gabriela Garcia Medina & Katherine Craft
NFMLA unveils winners of it's 11th annual Best of NFMLA Awards


NFMLA Celebrates Family Drama, Surreal Horror and Magical Fiction for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month

The Black List: LatinX List Finalists for 2022 unveiled!

NFMLA’s 2022 InFocus: Latinx and Hispanic Film Festival Lineup Includes ‘Pool Boy’ and ‘Bertie the Brilliant’

Film Independent 2020 Directing Lab Fellows


"Bertie the Brilliant" Presented by Latino Public Broadcasting Premieres in PBS Short Film Festival
Inside the Academy's 2022 Film Accelerator Program


10 Short Films on our Radar (2024)
CONTACT
Manager: Jairo Alvarado
Redefine Entertainment
Agent: Valarie Phillips
Verve
Attorneys: Jesse & Ryan Nord
The Nord Group
