Donovan Tolledo is an LA-based writer / producer born in Saudi Arabia and raised in the Philippines and Chicago. 

He is focused on telling stories about marginalized and migrant people exploring masculinity, racial inequity, and sexual identity through cinema and television. 

He received his MFA in 2022 from Columbia University in Creative Producing, where he received the Arthur Krim Memorial Award and Michael Hausman Foundation Award for excellence in producing, as well as multiple production grants. 

Short films he produced have received support from Panavision New Filmmakers Program and National Board of Review, shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Awards, and have screened at Telluride, Fantasia, Sarajevo, Palm Springs ShortFest, Outfest Fusion, and Newfest. 

He is a 2022 Outfest Screenwriting Lab Fellow and a Cine Qua Non Lab Storylines Lab participant for his feature scripts Fat Lip and Oasis. He is also a 2023 Film Independent Project Involve Producing Fellow.

He currently works full-time as a producer at an award winning advertising agency, Code and Theory, working with high-profile clients like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Yahoo. 

An avid traveler, he is open to productions globally.