Documentary 94’ I 2022

Director I Tessa Louise-Salomé

Written by I Tessa Louise-Salomé, Sarah Contou-Terquem

Cinematography I Boris Levy

Editor I Simon Le Berre

Composer I Gael Rakotondrabe

Official Selection Tribeca 2022 Documentary Competition I Winner Best Cinematography

International Sales          The Party Film Sales

Theatrical release           New Story (France)

Narrator                           Willem Dafoe

With                                 Blanche Baker, Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Bosworth

                                        Jack Garfein, Dick Guttman, Foster Hirsch, Geoffrey Horne

                                        Irène Jacob, Kate Rennebohm, Bobby Soto    

Directed by Tessa Louise-Salomé

An innovative, cinematic exploration of acting as a form of survival through the life and work of Jack Garfein: Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio co-founder, controversial stage and screen director. A journey of an enigmatic, censored artist, "The Wild One" explores the importance of his legacy and questions how art can draw on personal memory to better enlighten our present.

THE WILD ONE