BIO:
Thomas Gaito has enjoyed working in the Television, Film and Commercial Production industry for over 19 years, on over 1800 commercial film productions. He is as happy to be working locally as abroad, on location and in studio.
Thomas currently lives in Brooklyn NY
THOMAS GAITO
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Objective
To Work in Film and TV Commercial Production as a 1st Assistant Director
CREDITS
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR The Beastie Boys Story, Director Spike Jonze
IMBD TOM GAITO
Present - 2012 Commercial 1st Assistant Director,
1st Assistant Director The Beastie Boys Story - Spike Jonze
Associate Director My Next Guest With David Letterman Michael Bonofiglio - 1 ,3,4,& 6 - Radical Media
Production Manager Springsteen on Broadway Tom Zimny Netflix
2nd AD - Hamilton - Thomas Kail Disney +
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
1500 Various Location/Studio Promo and Commercial Productions
Recent Work:
Christies Live May 20th/21st Century Night Sale - World Wide Live Broadcast - Chrome London
Gold Peak Tea w/ Quest Love - Cameron Harris - Gravy
Montefiore Hospital - Henry Alex Rubin - Smuggler
EE World Cup - Henry Alex Rubin - Smuggler
Cadillac - Joe Wright - Sibling Rivalry
I Love NY Fall Harrison Boyce - Sibling Rivalry
Live Action Capture of Hamilton on Broadway Radical Media
Sprint/Pharrell Williams @ Radical Alex Coletti Dir.
A Night w/ Joe Biden- Maurice Marable Dir. HBO
Start Up NYBackyard Films Xander Dir.
Clear Shampoo - Rivalry MiKon Van Gastel Dir. Sibling Rivalry
Chobani HSI Margret & Joy Dir.
Frigidare Rabbit Dale Oates Dir.
The Maslow Project - Renny Maslow- Smuggler
2010 - 2012 2nd Assistant Director DGA/Second Unit Director
500 Various Location/Studio Promo and Commercial Productions
Nation Wide David Backus 1st AD.
Kindel Arle Bordas 1st AD
Mohegan Sun David Cox 1st AD
Unilever John Lowe 1st AD
Kodak Monty Greenlee 1st AD
2006 Feature 1st Assistant Director
“Shiner” Feature ShortTribeca Film Festival 2006
Mike Doyle Director
2005 2nd Assistant Director
“The Game Killers” TV Pilot
Bruce Sterling Director, Leroy Morton Productions
David Backus DGA First Assistant Director
2004 – 2008 Key Set Production Assistant:
900 Various Union (DGA) Commercial Productions NY,
Epoch Films, Hungry Man, Radical Media, Smuggler, Anonymous Content, Go Films, Believe Media, HIS, MJZ, Furlined, Moxie Pictures, Robot, Partizan
2001- 2004 Roth Investment Partners
General Partner
Syndicate markets and Investment Banking
High Net Worth and Institutional Accounts
1993– 2001 Sands Brothers & Co., LTD
Vice President Retail Sales
Member New York Stock Exchange
Education
1991-1993 Post Grad : Political Economics, Harvard University Boston, MA.
1991 BA Economics, Hartwick College , Oneonta, NY.
References
Chris Rouchard Line Producer 1 917 952 9345
Terry Shafirov Line Producer 1.917.653.0570
Paula Cohen EP - goodstory films 917 769 4149
Shelby Ross EP- - Sibling Rivalry
Willa Goldfeder Line Producer - willagoldfeder@gmail.com