Salut Robert

Director Laura Israel, Producer Ryan Krivoshey

Assembled from decades of unseen personal footage and home movies, Salut Robert is a diaristic portrait, a posthumous autobiography of revered photographer-filmmaker Robert Frank told in his own words and images.

Laura Israel

Director

Laura Israel is the director of two documentary features, the DOC NYC award-winning Windfall which premiered at TIFF, and Don’t Blink – Robert Frank, a main slate selection at the New York Film Festival that was one of Art Forum’s best films of 2015. Israel worked as Robert Frank’s editor for over two decades, and she is an award-winning editor whose credits include many music videos and commercial campaigns. Her clients include Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Ziggy Marley, David Byrne, Laurie Simmons, Sonic Youth, among many others. She also edited the Ed Lachman directed short, Protect Me From What I Want, screened in the Jenny Holzer: Light Line 2024 Guggenheim exhibition.

Ryan Krivoshey

Producer

A veteran of the independent film scene, Ryan Krivoshey founded the award-winning distribution company Grasshopper Film in 2015. With its adventurous slate, Grasshopper has become known for bringing bold, critically acclaimed films by emerging and established filmmakers to audiences. In 2025, he co-founded the production company Correspondent, where he serves as President, continuing this mission through the development of artistic, cinematic, and boundary-pushing projects. The current slate includes Salut Robert, directed by Laura Israel, Metropolis, directed by Anupama Srinivasan and Anirban Dutta, and Prisoners of War, directed by Sergei Loznitsa.