Arisleyda Dilone makes personal work about her body, her life and her family. Born in Santiago de Los de Caballeros, in Dominican Republic, she spent her formative years in a remote village outside of the city of Santiago. Raised in Long Island, New York she pursued a life that would make her immigrant parents proud while also being true to her. She is the first in her family to attend and graduate college. Before film she worked in New York politics and in international affairs. In 2011, she was awarded a NALIP mentorship and in 2012 a Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation. She was a UnionDocs 2014 Collaborative Fellow as well as a 2015 Queer/Art/Mentorship Program Fellow, wherein she completed her short film, Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito /Mom (Me and My Little Rooster). Arisleyda is a member of Diverse Filmmakers Alliance and Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

Arisleyda Dilone is a Dominican-American filmmaker, actor and writer. In 2015, she completed the short film: Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito/Mom and Me and My Little Rooster which has screened nationally at the Brooklyn Arts Museum, New Orleans Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum and Mercer Union to name a few. She was a 2014 UnionDocs fellow and a 2015 Queer Art Program fellow. She has been awarded residencies at Abrons Art Center, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo,Inc. to name a few. She is currently in post-production on This Body, Too/Y Este Cuerpo También, a feature-length documentary about her intersex body and the construction of femininity and womanhood in her Dominican-American family. Arisleyda is a member of Diverse Filmmakers Alliance, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, and AyOmbe Theater.