2025 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: Rebecca Baron, Princess Grace Award winner (Film 1996)
Cary Grant Film Honor
Gabriella Mykal is a Queer West Indian American filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Mykal’s debut feature documentary RAPE PLAY had its national premiere at Atlanta Film Festival in 2024 and its international premiere at TIFF Next Wave in 2025. The film also received a 2023 Collection Award from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. Her first narrative short, BATHROOM ATTENDANT, premiered at American Cinematheque’s PROOF Film Festival in 2024. Mykal is a 2024 Black List Project Lab Fellow for her original script FUZZY and is currently a finalist for the first ever iteration of the Tyler Perry Studios Dream Collective Short Film Program. She is currently in development on her debut narrative feature film.
