Gabriela Serrano (b. 1996) is a writer-director, editor, and audiovisual artist. She is interested in deeply introspective stories that deconstruct form and reimagine futures in her native Philippines. Her award-winning debut short Dikit, a split-screen depiction of Filipino folklore, feminine anger, and dreams, is streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel. She continues her exploration of dreams in women’s spaces through the call center sci-fi drama Please Bear With Me, her first full length film in development, recipient of the SGIFF Southeast Asian Film Lab Fellowship, the BIFAN NAFF Asian Discovery Award, a Produire au Sud selection, and the Festival du Nouveau Cinema de Montréal’s Prix du Nouveau Marché. She is working on two new shorts: a companion piece to Please Bear With Me spanning three decades, and a tropical mystery that takes place over the course of three days.