Eva Kolodner is a former independent film producer and co-founder of New York-based Salty Features.

Early life and education

Eva Marie Kolodner was born c. 1970 to Dorothy M. Chiavetta and Ignace I. Kolodner and grew up in

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. Her father was a mathematics professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her mother headed the department of nutrition services for the Allegheny County Health Department. She graduated from Winchester Thurston School in 1988 and earned a B.A. in psychology from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

in 1992.

Career

Kolodner got her start in the independent film industry as an unpaid assistant to

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at Vachon's independent production company,

Killer Films Killer Films is a New York City-based independent film production company founded by movie producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler in 1995. The company has produced a number of the most acclaimed American independent films over the past tw ...

. She worked at Killer Films for five years, working on films including ''Kids'', ''I Shot Andy Warhol'', ''Safe'' and ''Happiness'' as she "worked her way through the producing hierarchy", according to trade journal ''Independent''. While working with Killer Films, Kolodner produced with

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, then an undergrad at Columbia University, the

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-winning film '' Boys Don't Cry'' based on Peirce's script. In 2000, she became Head of Production at Madstone Films, where she produced '' Rhinoceros Eyes'', directed by Aaron Woodley and starring

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, which won the Discovery Award at the 2003

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. At Madstone she hired Yael Melamede, who had trained as an architect but moved into the film industry in 1996, as a production supervisor. The two launched Salty Features in 2003. Kolodner left the company in 2009 to switch careers, becoming a fundraiser for nonprofits.

Recognition

Kolodner was nominated for the Independent Spirit Producer's Award, and in 2002 was selected for Crain's New York Business’ “40 Under 40.”

Production

*''Finn at the Blue Line'' (2008) *''Afterwards'' (2008) *''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'' (2008) *''The Inner Life of Martin Frost'' (2007) *''Bam Bam and Celeste'' (2005) *''Evergreen'' (2004) *''Rhinoceros Eyes'' (2003) *''Boys Don't Cry'' (1999)

Personal life

Kolodner married Eliza Starr Byard, whom she'd met while they were undergraduates at Yale, in 2004. The couple adopted a child.

References

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