Tony and James Pinto are a father and son collaborating as co-writers/directors. They also filmed and edited WHY DINOSAURS largely themselves.

 

Like most kids, James Pinto was obsessed with dinosaurs from an early age. He spent countless hours playing with dinosaur toys, watching movies and documentaries, and collecting fossils. But his passion for paleontology never stopped.

By the time he was 15, he had found fossils in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota, won first place in the California State Science Fair, and became one of the youngest docents and fossil preparators at the La Brea Tar Pits, where he volunteered almost 400 hours.

The film spans much of James' teenage life in a coming-of-age story. He recently graduated with Honors from UC Berkeley with a double major in Biology and Geology, and will be starting graduate school in Paleontology at the University of Southern California.

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Tony is committed to screening WHY DINOSAURS around the world to inspire future scientists across all STEM disciplines—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math—using dinosaurs as the gateway.