Tinto receives his Eagle Scout award from Henry Kissinger.

Tinto was born in either South America or a Baltic state.  He speaks between four and six languages.  He mumbles.  He is a winner of awards at Sundance, Cannes, Clios, NY Festivals and his work has shown at Rotterdam, BFI, Mexico, Philadelphia, Cinequest, Stockholm, to name some, but not all. He has given talks at TED, at Aspen Ideas, and the Cannes Festival of Creativity.  His work has shown on Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Peacock, and PBS.  He has made over 150 pieces of content for global brands like Intel, Microsoft, Gatorade, Kellogg’s, Toyota, Mazda, Jeep, Stella Artois, Grand Marnier, Wild Turkey, Wendy’s, Kitchen Aid, SC Johnson, Sherwin Williams, and Disney, to name a few.  Tinto attended the AFI where his mentor was David Lynch.  On Sundays, for a few magical months he had breakfast with Robert Altman.  Tinto has worked with Academy-award nominated talent, but more often than not prefers to cast from the streets of wherever he is working.  Tinto collects jackets, mostly ill-fitting.  His favorite color is sea foam green or blue.  Tinto is colorblind, blind in one eye, and once jumped out of a plane and the parachute did not open.  His favorite song is Lee Hazelwood’s My Autumn’s Done Come.  But yesterday it was something he heard in Lisbon, something by Cesaria Evora, the singer from Cape Verde.  When not making films and hiring little people to impersonate him at press junkets, Tinto enjoys tequila, elliptical machines, and saying a prayer of gratitude when he wakes up next to his wife. Tinto may or may not have Dupuytren’s contracture or a contract with the city of New Orleans.  Tinto stopped watching films and is obsessed with New Yorker reviews of restaurants which he cites as his inspiration. Quentin Tarantino and Tom Hanks are his biggest fans.

Tinto is, in fact, an Eagle Scout, but that’s not Henry Kissinger.

, Ti