Gisella Bustillos is a Bolivian-Vietnamese filmmaker who likes writing authentic, messy, relationship-driven stories with a scifi twist. She comes from the non-fiction world where her first feature documentary, A Brief History of Time Travel, premiered at San Diego Comic-Con, won Best Documentary at the Dreamer of Dreams and Philip K. Dick Film Festival in 2020, and screened internationally.
Gisella graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film/TV and was a quarterfinalist for the Tisch Sloan Foundation Feature Film Award. She currently lives in Seattle with her cat Yoda and actively hosts futurist events.