FIORELLA VESCOVI GARCIA is a queer, Los Angeles-based Latinx multi-hyphenate writer, director, and actor born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Fiorella’s latest film FOUR VISITORS (2026) is currently being developed by the LFI Inclusion Fellowship, sponsored by Netflix.

Her previous short film MAL DE AMORES (2023) has screened in over 24 film festivals worldwide including Academy Awards-qualifying Hollyshorts and was nominated for Best Comedy Short by New Filmmakers LA 2024 Awards .The semi-autobiographical short film, a proof of concept for an LGBTQ+ TV series based on Fiorella’s own life experiences, was awarded the Cycle III Grant from the Peregrine Collective, which helped move the project into production. Fiorella was selected as a participant of the 2022 Hola Mexico Film Festival’s Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today program, sponsored by Warner Bros. Discovery & HFPA, where Mal de Amores premiered in the festival’s Shorts Program Selection. The film was also awarded the Inside Out RE:Focus Fund, a post-production grant supported by the Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival.

She is currently developing STUNTED, a dark comedy television series based on Mal de Amores, and in 2025, she served as a staff writer on six episodes of the heartfelt LGBTQ+ sitcom AND ALSO WITH YOU.

Fiorella was chosen to be a participant for the AWD #MentorLatinaDirectors Initiative 2023-2024 Cycle. In 2020, Fiorella was selected to join the Women in Film mentee program as a writer/director. 

Fiorella has studied at several prominent acting schools in Los Angeles, and attended  UCLA’s screenwriting extension program. As a queer and genderfluid filmmaker, her writing and directing work embraces deeply personal LGBTQ+, Latine, and women empowerment themes while aiming to tell heartfelt and unapologetic stories. 

Fiorella is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Women in Film (WIF), Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), Women of Color Unite (WOCU) and Chicana Director’s Initiative (CDI).

Awards & fellowships

LFI/Netflix 2026 Inclusion Fellow

AWD #MentorLatinaDirectors Initiative 2023-2024 Cycle

Inside Out RE:Focus Fund- 2022 LGBTQ+ Filmmakers Grantee

Warner Bros. Discovery & HFPA- 2022 Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today Participant

Women in Film- 2020 WIF Mentee – Writer/Director