Capri Films was founded by veteran producer Gabriella Martinelli (Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, M Butterfly and Naked Lunch, and Clive Barker’s Night Breed) to create, develop and produce feature film, and television projects from conception to delivery. The Capri brand is known for its discerning taste and delivery of high end product for the Canadian and international marketplace. Since its inception in 2001, Capri has specialized in international treaty co-productions such as Between Strangers, a Canada-Italy co-production directed by Edoardo Ponti, starring Sophia Loren, Pete Postlethwaite, Malcolm McDowell, Deborah Kara Unger and Mira Sorvino, and Terry Gilliam’s surrealistic feature Tideland, a Canada-UK co-production reuniting with Naked Lunch co-producer Jeremy Thomas and The Recorded Picture Company, starring Jeff Bridges and Jennifer Tilly. For the television marketplace, Capri has co-produced such event mini-series as Lives Of The Saints, starring Sophia Loren, Sabrina Ferilli, Kris Kristofferson, Nick Mancuso, Jessica Paré and Fabrizio Filippo; and two two-part four hour mini-series, Karol: The Man who became Pope, and Karol: The Pope who stayed a Man based on the life of the late Pope John Paul II, starring Kenneth Welsh, Matt Craven, and Lesley Ann Hope with Italy’s Tao Due.
From left to right: Cocksure by Mordecai Richler, Sophia Loren in Lives of the Saints, Jodelle Ferland and Jeff Bridges in Tideland, Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent in Away From Her Director Edoardo Ponti on the set of Between Strangers, Villeneuve poster.
In 2004 Capri opened a boutique distribution division, Capri Releasing, for the distribution of Canadian and world specialty films. In 2007, they released Sarah Polley’s acclaimed debut feature Away From Her, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.
Maintaining a close relationship with filmmakers, Capri produced Pete Postlethwaite’s award-winning live stage show Scaramouche Jones at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto in the winter of 2003, as well as documentaries by Vincenzo Natali (Getting Gilliam), and Adam Reid (Dancing in the Flames (2008)). Learn more about Capri live theatre projects here.
Based in Toronto, Capri has a feature development slate that includes Mordecai Richler’s Cocksure, JG Ballard’s High Rise, Brad Peyton’s unique family tale Troll Under the Table and a major F1 feature on racing icon Villeneuve.
Capri’s Television Division, headed by President Trevor Walton, develops high end mini-series and, more recently, one hour dramatic series.
Capri mentors young and emerging talent through its low budget division, Capri Vision, headed by Robin Crumley and is currently anticipating the Canadian release of Suck this fall by Alliance Films.
Click here for Capri Films’ current feature film development slate.
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