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K.D. Dávila is an American filmmaker. She wrote Emergency (2022 film) and directed the Academy Award-nominated short film Please Hold.

Career
Dávila began her career as a television writer, writing on the staff of the science fiction series Salvation and the fantasy series Motherland: Fort Salem.

Dávila was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2021 for her directorial debut, Please Hold, which she co-wrote with Levin Menekse. New York Times film critic Jeannette Catsoulis described it as "a shockingly clever satire of the privatized prison system and the elusiveness of justice."

Dávila wrote and executive produced the feature film Emergency, a dark comedy thriller directed by Carey Williams. The film was based on the short film of the same name, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW in 2018. KD Dávila's screenplay made the 2020 Black List of most popular un-produced scripts from up-and-coming screenwriters. The project was picked up by Temple Hill Entertainment and Amazon Studios. In April 2021, RJ Cyler, Sabrina Carpenter, Donald Elise Watkins, Sebastian Chacon, Maddie Nichols, Madison Thompson, and Diego Abraham were added to the cast. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where Dávila won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Her writing on Emergency garnered a nomination for a 2022Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

In 2022, she was named as one of Variety's Top Ten Latino Content Creators to Watch.

Personal life
K.D. Dávila grew up in Southern California, and is a graduate of Princeton University and USC School of Cinematic Arts. She is Chicana.

She is married to her frequent collaborator, Levin Menekse.