Peter Capozzi is a producer, director, editor, writer, and digital media entrepreneur with an immense passion for storytelling. Throughout his career, Peter has worked to find, refine, edit and convey the most interesting and compelling stories possible, using both traditional and new media distribution platforms.
He began his career at the age of 16 when singer Michael Bolton recruited him into his production company, Bolton Music, as a studio intern. One year later, while still in high school, Peter was accepted into the Institute for Film, Television and Radio Production (ITRP) at Boston University. Upon completion of the program, he moved to New York City to attend The Tisch School of the Arts at NYU for Film and Television Production.
While at NYU, Peter was offered the prestigious honor of producing and directing a Senior Narrative film, The Return, which went on to be featured at a number of film festivals and was picked up for distribution by outlets around the world, including HBO, Encore and Delta Airlines. Aside from his work with Michael Bolton, Peter has worked on music industry projects with legend Nile Rodgers as well as with MTV.
Consistently working alongside Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalists and TV Producers, Peter’s first post-college job was with Martha Stewart Living Television. As an editor, Peter has cut reality series television for Lifetime, E! and the Style Network. He has served as segment and show producer for E! News / The Daily 10, as an associate segment director for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider and continues to be an LA-based freelance producer for the Independent Film Channel. He has also worked in extensively in film publicity.
In 2007, Peter was asked by entrepreneur Donna Meté to return to New York City and serve as Supervising Producer and Director on a new web series entitled WOW – Women’s World. After nearly one year in New York, Peter had completed 15, fifteen-minute episodes of WOW – Women’s World, as well as over 100 various daily webcasts. He then returned to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.
Aside from his traditional television work, Peter is currently developing several digital brand-integrated projects, including his latest endeavor 13 Minutes to Midnight.