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Salar
fiction
Bolivia, 2011, 19'34''
Director: Nicholas Greene
Producer: Julie Buck
Director of photography: Hillary Spera
Writer: Nicholas Greene
Synopsis: Two lives cross in an isolated Bolivian village on the edge of the vast Uyuni salt flats: Marc, a disgruntled American doctor looking to leave, and Carlos, a fiery Bolivian salt miner who's just been stabbed in the hand.
Director: Nicholas Greene
Nicholas Greene is a British writer/director based in New York. In 2010 he made the short film ‘Salar’ in Bolivia, working with La Fabrica Escuela, the country's only film school. The film played in the international competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. His feature screenplay based on this project was selected by the Cine Qua Non screenwriters lab in Mexico, and he attended the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011. As a producer he is the co-founder of Ascension Entertainment, and has two projects with development funding from the UK Film Council: ‘Travels with My Aunt’, based on the novel by Graham Greene, and ‘The White Tiger’, based on the Booker prize winning novel by Aravind Adiga, in co-production with Smuggler Films. He previously worked as a brand manager for Paramount Pictures and holds an MFA in Film at Columbia University, supported by scholarships from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Institute of Humane Studies.