Our mission is to tell stories you haven’t seen before, empowering voices you haven’t heard to be daring and rise above the noise.

Nonetheless is an independent production company dedicated to telling bold stories, creating gripping visuals and producing diverse, high quality content for every budget. With in-house development, production and distribution capabilities, we are able to take a project from idea to release and work creatively with our directors every step of the way.

We collaborate with our directors to produce different kinds of content - from 15 second Instagram videos, to 90 minutes feature films. Whether making a commercial or a documentary, we are excited to try new ways of visual storytelling and experiment with different forms & formats.

If you want to know more about us or our upcoming projects, don't hesitate to send us an email!

GIULIA CARUSO & KI JIN KIM (Founders & Producers)

Giulia Caruso and Ki Jin Kim are award-winning filmmakers and founders of Nonetheless Productions. After moving to Los Angeles from Italy and South Korea respectively, Giulia and Ki Jin started the filmmakers’ collective Nonetheless Productions with partner Gorav Kalyan.

In 2018, Giulia and Ki Jin were nominated for the Piaget Producers Award for “emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films.”; and won an LA-area Emmy for producing the second season of KCET’s docu-series LostLA. In 2017, they won an Independent Spirit Award for Andrew Ahn’s debut feature SPA NIGHT.

Their critically acclaimed features SPA NIGHT and COLUMBUS (directed by Kogonada, starring John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson and Parker Posey) both premiered at Sundance. COLUMBUS was self-distributed in North America through the first Sundance Creative Distribution Fellowship with great reception.

Upcoming feature projects include: HOLY EMY (dir. Araceli Lemos, Greece/France/US), premiering at Locarno 2021; MOONSHADOW (dir. Silas Howard, USA - in development); BITTERROOT (dir. Vera Brunner-Sung, USA - in development)

Nonetheless has produced content for clients such as Armani, Focus Features, Intel, MTV, KCET and GoPro - including the award-winning Sundance short films Myrna the Monster and Deer Flower, and Rhys Ernst’s GLAAD-awarded docuseries We've Been Around.

Giulia and Ki Jin are alumni of the Cannes Producer’s Network, Sundance Creative Producing Summit, Film Independent Project Involve, Rotterdam Producers Lab and Berlinale Talent Campus. They both hold MFAs in Film Directing from CalArts.