salty features

Salty Features is an independent film production company founded in 2003 by producing partners Eva Kolodner and Yael Melamede. Salty’s goal is to make feature films that showcase unique vision, strong storytelling, and thought-provoking subject matter.

Salty’s most recent film, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, premiered at Sundance in Dramatic Competition and was released in September 2009 by IFC Films. Based on the book by David Foster Wallace, the film was written and directed by John Krasinski and features an ensemble cast that includes Julianne Nicholson, Tim Hutton, Bobby Cannavale, Max Minghella, Ben Shenkman and Dominic Cooper. Salty’s previous film, Paul Auster’s THE INNER LIFE OF MARTIN FROST, opened MoMA’s New Directors/New Films festival and was released by New Yorker Films in the fall of 2007. Salty’s next projects include RESILIENT, a documentary film directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine; and the thriller MARTYRS’ CROSSING set in the midst of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, written by Naomi Wallace and Bruce Mcleod, based on the bestseller by Amy Wilentz.

Melamede was a co-producer on the Oscar-nominated documentary feature MY ARCHITECT, directed by Nathaniel Kahn, about the prominent architect Louis I. Kahn. In 2000, Melamede joined Madstone Films, a unique digital production, distribution and exhibition company, as their Production Supervisor. Prior to that, Melamede worked as a post-production supervisor on such films as Wayne Wang’s THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, Paul Schrader’s FOREVER MINE, and Paul Auster’s LULU ON THE BRIDGE, to name just a few. Melamede was trained and worked as an architect in London, NY and Tel Aviv, before making her career shift to film in the mid 90s. Melamede holds a B.A. and M.Arch. from Yale University.