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Donna Bonilla Wheeler
Los Angeles, CA
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Valentina Kudryavtseva, Esq
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8730 Wilshire Blvd
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Donna Bonilla Wheeler is an Indigenous-Latine screenwriter, director, and playwright. Her works focus primarily on stories of identity, resilience, and belonging, featuring underdog characters who possess unusual or heroic skills, humanity, or insights. Her Academy Nicholl Fellowship finalist screenplay, The Girl Next Door, was initially optioned by the head of Madonna's production company, before later igniting a Cannes bidding war with Forrest Murray producing and Angelina Jolie attached to star. Her feature directorial debut, Death of a Saleswoman, sold domestically and internationally at AFM, Cannes, and Berlinale and streams worldwide. Her screen and stage projects have been selected for further development by New York Stage & Film, Gotham, Stowe Story Labs, Sundance workshops, Slamdance Labs, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, and LA Female Playwrights Initiative, including her award-winning screenplay, Returns & Errors: Pets, that also premiered as a stage play through Bilingual Foundation of the Arts. Her adventure-crime series Clash was selected as one of only 12 projects worldwide to MIPTV/Cannes, where she’s been recognized as a recurring MIPTV Producer-to-Watch from 2020–2023. Donna is founder of the Alliance of Women Directors' Mentor Latina Directors Fellowship, and previously held creative and managerial roles on multiple productions for Disney, A&E and PBS.