Donovan Tolledo is a 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 producing, as well as multiple production grants. 

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

His feature-length script Fat Lip landed him the 2022 Outfest Screenwriting Lab Fellowship. He is also a 2023 Film Independent Project Involve Producing Fellow and works full-time as a producer at advertising agency, Code and Theory, working with clients like Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. 

An avid traveler, he is open to productions globally.