With over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry, Gabriella Martinelli is the strategic and creative drive behind Toronto-based Capri Films Inc., a vertically integrated production and distribution company that she founded in 2000. As President and CEO she directs the company’s broad range of quality filmed and live entertainment and in 2004 expanded the company’s operations with a distribution arm, Capri Releasing.

Martinelli’s producing credits include Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes; David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch, starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis and Ian Holm; M. Butterfly, with Jeremy Irons and John Lone; Clive Barker’s Nightbreed (including the documentary); Between Strangers, starring Sophia Loren and Pete Postlethwaite; Terry Gilliam’s Tideland with The Recorded Picture Company, a Canada/UK co-production starring Jeff Bridges, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Tilly, Brendan Fletcher, and Jodelle Ferland; and Journey to Enlightenment, based on the life of Dilgo Khyente Rinposhce, a revered teacher of the Dalai Lama with narration by Richard Gere and music supervision by Philip Glass.

Martinelli also produced the highly successful two-part, four-hour mini-series I, a co-production with the CTV Network and RTI in Italy, directed by Jerry Ciccoritti (I) and starring Sophia Loren, Sabrina Ferilli, Kris Kristofferson, Nick Mancuso, Jessica Paré and Fabrizio Filippo. Her co-productions with Italy included two two-part, four-hour mini-series on the life of Pope John Paul, Karol, The Man who Became Pope and Karol, The Pope The Man with Rome based Tao Due.

Martinelli produced Pete Postlethwaite’s award winning theatre production Scaramouche Jones, in association with David and Ed Mirvish Productions.

Trevor Walton comes to Capri Films as President of Television after twenty years of experience as a network executive in Los Angeles.

Trevor, born and educated in England, began his career as a talent agent at the premiere company at that time, Peters Fraser and Dunlop. In his early twenties, he transferred to Los Angeles and joined the Smith Freedman Agency where he shepherded the early careers of many well known performers such as Pierce Brosnan. He returned briefly to England to produce his first comedy series, Girls on Top, starring Tracey Ullman, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Ruby Wax.

On returning to the United States, Trevor joined CBS as a junior programming executive but quickly came up through the ranks and became head of long form programming. While there, he was responsible for such successes as Gypsy, starring Bette Midler, Return to Lonesome Dove with Jon Voight and the ten hour mini-series, Scarlett. He was also in charge of the highly successful Hallmark Hall of Fame franchise. Trevor then went on to be Senior Vice President of Movies and Mini-Series for the FOX network, where he commissioned some of the best writing talent such as Clive Barker, Dean Koontz and Stephen King. Trevor was then recruited by the Disney and Hearst corporations to head up the movie and mini-series department of Lifetime Television. This enormous undertaking required commissioning over one hundred and fifty movies during a six year period. The department became the most successful in cable television, winning the unique distinction of having the ten highest rated movies on American cable television in 2005. Amongst those was the mini-series Human Trafficking, which Trevor conceived and commissioned, and was able to have screened at both the U.N. in New York and at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

As Vice President of Capri Vision, a branch of Capri Films dedicated to fostering young and emerging Canadian talent, Robin Crumley has produced a 22-minute short film shot on 35mm with director Samir Rehem titled The Answer Key; a BravoFact short with Rehem titled A Cure for Terminal Loneliness; a feature documentary on the life of Jungian analyst Marion Woodman entitled Dancing in the Flames; and a short film by Rob Stefaniuk (Phil The Alien) entitled Feel My Pain. Currently, Robin is developing a feature project with Stefaniuk, the rock and roll vampire road movie entitled Suck.

Robin has worked in the film industry for over 15 years in a variety of hands-on positions within production, from prep through post, working with such directors as David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, Norman Jewison, Deepa Mehta and Terry Gilliam. As a sound editor with Urban Post Production, his credits include The Statement, Saw 2, Lives of the Saints, and Ron Mann’s Go Further and Tales of the Rat Fink. He was director’s observer on Vincenzo Natali’s Nothing, and supervised both the production and post on Natali’s Terry Gilliam documentary, Getting Gilliam.

For the past year Robin has also served as Vice President of Capri Releasing, overseeing acquisitions and producer liaisons on the films Away From Her, Breakfast with Scot and Walk All Over Me.