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Award-Winning Films Produced in Oakland, CA





 


BUDGET PARADISE - Watch Now on Vimeo Staff Picks
(written/directed by LaTajh Simmons-Weaver)
   MONDEGREEN - Coming Soon
   (written/directed by Linda Mai Green)
 HOLD ME CLOSE
(directed by  Aurora Brachman + LatTajh Simmons -Weaver)



FOR HIRE


Okta “Box Customer Film”
(post production - editing/gfx/vfx)
Walden Pond Books
(production + post)
Samsung
(production + post)
ABOUTWe’re Capsaicinco, but you can call us CapsCo (or just Caps if you’re in a rush).

Since 2018, our Oakland-based production company has produced films and for-hire client work with some of the most talented and lovely filmmakers that you’ll ever have the pleasure of meeting.

Amongst our crew we have decades of experience in production + post for clients such as Samsung, Google, LEGO, Salesforce, and Okta. Our films have played major film fests including Sundance, Tribeca, and San Francisco International and gone on to stream at Netflix, MUBI, Amazon Prime and MeansTV.

Get in touch and let’s making something together.

xoxo,
Caps
NEWS

1/30/26
LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s BUDGET PARADISE is a Vimeo Staff Pick.

12/19/25
Patricia Lee’s WASTED RESOURCES wins Berkeley Film Foundation’s Saul Zaentz Award.

9/17/25
LaTajh Simon-Weaver named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

5/13/25
Dominic Mercurio’s music video for Tune-Yards premieres!

3/27/25
LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s narrative short film
BUDGET PARADISE to play SFFILM Festival. 

2/3/25
Linda Mai Green’s film MONDEGREEN now playing festivals!

1/6/25
Aurora Brachman + LaTajh Simmons-Weaver’s documentary HOLD ME CLOSE plays Sundance

12/6/24
Kevin Wong + Vanessa Morena Gentry’s SWEEPING GRAVES wins the SFFILM Rainin Grant for Screenwriting

4/29/24
Writer/Director Ryland Walker Knight chosen for the Sundance Institute’s Native Lab to develop feature narrative THE LIP OF THE WORLD

4/24/23
Kevin Wong’s feature documentary film HOME IS A HOTEL wins 2 Best Documentary Awards at SFFILM Festival

2/5/22
Ryland Walker Knight’s WALDEN POND BOOKS receives a Vimeo Staff Pick
FILMS
Produced* / Executive Produced#

HOW BIG IS THE RAINBOW? - Tune-Yards dir. Dominic Mercurio*#

BUDGET PARADISE dir. LaTajh Simmons-Weaver (New/Next, Vancouver International, SFFILM, Frameline, Blackstar)*#

AT THE FINISH LINE dir. Topher Cochrane (Chasing Bubbles Youtube)#

MONDEGREEN dir. Linda Mai Green (Mill Valley, Final Girls Berlin, Les Intergalactiques Lyon)*

HOLD ME CLOSE dirs. Aurora Brachman + LaTajh Simmons-Weaver (Sundance Film Festival, True/False Film Festival)#

WALDEN POND BOOKS  dir. Ryland Walker Knight (Vimeo Staff Pick)*#

MEDIAN dir. Matthew Riutta (SF Queer Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival)#

HOME IS A HOTEL dir. Kevin Wong + Co-Directors Kar Yin Tam, Todd Sills (SFFILM Festival, Big Sky, Austin Film Festival)#

LOCH NESS SWIM dir. Sean Gillane (SFFILM Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia)*

I WISH YOU WOULD dir. Ryland Walker Knight (Capsaicinco + Friends at the Grand Lake Theater)*#

JUS SOLI dir. Kevin Wong (Film Shortage)*

GHOSTBOX COWBOY dir. Johnnie Maringouin (Tribeca Film Festival, Denver International Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh)*

PARQUE CENTRAL dir. Ricardo Gaona (Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco Latino Film Festival)*

INSIDE VOICES dir. Ryland Walker Knight (Vancouver Film Festival, SF Indiefest)*
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capsaicin n. [CHEMISTRY]

1. a compound that is responsible for the
pungency of capsicums (nightshade peppers)

2. the agent for spicy heat

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