The Wild One

Tessa Louise-Salomé, an award-winning director and producer renowned for her poetic documentary portraits of artists, gained acclaim with Mr. X, A Vision of Leos Carax (2014), which competed at Sundance. Her exploration of Xavier Dolan’s work in Once Upon a Time…Mommy aired on ARTE in 2017, it delved into the origins of the director’s family drama. In 2006, she founded Petite Maison Production in Paris, where she produced and directed numerous documentary and fiction projects as well as gallery-commissioned films in collaboration with esteemed installation artists such as Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman, Sophie Calle, and Terrence Koh. Louise-Salomé has also contributed to politically engaged films on gay rights activism and Europe’s colonial heritage. Her new film, The Wild One, combines her focus on political issues with her exploration of the artistic process, tracing the life of Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio figure, and Hollywood director Jack Garfein.

Joslyn Barnes is a producer. Among the films she has been involved with producing since co-founding Louverture Films are: documentaries Trouble the Water; Black Power Mixtape; The House I Live In; Strong Island; Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Aquarela; Gunda; President; and the forthcoming Chocobar. Among the narratives are Bamako; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; Cemetery of Splendour; White Sun; Zama, Capernaum, In Between Dying and the forthcoming Memoria, Noche de Fuego and La Memoria del Monte. In 2017, Barnes was the recipient of both the Cinereach Producer Award and the Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producer Award. In 2010, 2018 and 2019 she was nominated for Emmy Awards, and in 2018 won the Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2018 and 2019 Barnes earned Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature.