CAPRI FILMS

A veteran international producer, Gabriella Martinelli has produced films in China, France, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Hungary, Nepal, Jamaica, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Best known for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes, she founded Toronto based Capri Films and Capri Releasing in 2001. In 2012 she established, Martinelli Films, a boutique production company with a focus on projects with social and environmental relevance and influence... Through Capri Films, Gabriella produced multiple Canada/Italy co-productions including; Between Strangers starring Sophia Loren, Pete Postlethwaite, Gerard Depardieu, and Malcolm McDowell; the mini-series Lives of the Saints starring Sophia Loren, Kris Kristofferson, and Jessica Paré; and Karol, The Pope, The Man, a four-part mini-series on the life of Pope John Paul II, with CBC (Canada) and Mediaset (Italy).