Dávila is an American filmmaker who wrote Emergency (2022) and directed the Academy Award-nominated short film Please Hold (2020).
[citation needed] Dávila was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2021 for her directorial debut, Please Hold.
[1] New York Times film critic Jeannette Catsoulis described it as "a shockingly clever satire of the privatized prison system and the elusiveness of justice.
In April 2021, RJ Cyler, Sabrina Carpenter, Donald Elise Watkins, Sebastian Chacon, Maddie Nichols, Madison Thompson, and Diego Abraham were added to the cast.
[4] In 2024, she wrote the Dungeons & Dragons episode of the animated anthology Secret Level.