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Gino Caputi – Co-Founder/Producer/Director

Trained as an actor and writer, Gino approaches any project first and foremost as a storyteller. Gino’s resume includes work as an Asst. Director on such features as  Knife Fight, The Other End of The Line, The Pursuit of Happyness, War of The Worlds,(VFX unit, ILM) Dopamine, Haiku Tunnel and The Mistress of SpicesHe has written several feature length screenplays and has also produced and directed the comedy shorts, John…Texas Ranger, L.A. Cops: The Mean Streets and Gentle Lovers, which won a Gold Medal for Excellence in the 2006 Park City Film Music Festival.  Gino recently co-produced and shot the documentary Petals In The Dust: The Endangered Indian Girls with his wife and producing partner, Nyna Caputi.

The film premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Festival.  In addition, Gino has also produced hundreds of business web videos for a wide range of clients as diverse as Houghton Millflin Harcourt to Cisco to your local dentists and attorneys. Gino’s educational background consists of a Bachelor of Science degree in Theater Arts from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon and he learned the art of filmmaking from studying the greats and buying a 16mm camera.


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Nyna Pais Caputi – Co-Founder, Producer

Nyna Pais Caputi was born in India and moved to the U.S. in 2002 where she did course work in filmmaking at New York Film Academy. She produced and/or directed  several award winning short films including DCBA-Desi Confused by America, Able, and Gentle Lovers. In 2015, Nyna completed her first feature length documentary entitled Petals In The Dust: India’s Endangered Girls which premiered at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival in June of that year. . For that film she was accepted in the Bay Are Video Coalition’s Media Maker Fellowship Program in 2014.  Before that, Nyna also founded the Global Walk for India’s Missing Girls in 2010 in San Francisco, an international awareness campaign on the violence and genocide of Indian women that has taken place in over 25 cities and five countries. She was recognized by the California State Assembly, District 14 as a Woman of the Year for 2015 and as a Woman of Distinction 2015 by the Soroptimist International of Diablo Vista. Nyna is also the founder of an organization for international women in the U.S. called The Expat Woman.