Afolabi (Afo) Kuti
Acquisitions Manager
A graduate of the National Film & TV School Compass Point programme funded by Skillset for director/writers, Afolabi Kuti is Salt’s acquisitions manager. After switching careers from property development to film, Afolabi went into the film festival world with stints at Sundance and the BFI London Film Festival. He then dipped his toes into film production working for producers Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley.
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humphrey gravell
collections and contract management
Humphrey Gravell is responsible for Salt’s worldwide collections and contract management which includes royalty monitoring, responsibility for global accounts and reporting and audits of global distribution networks and royalty revenue collections. Prior to joining Salt Humphrey was Head of Collections at Icon Entertainment and Capitol Films where he was responsible for the administration of over 5,000 licensing agreements in 150 territories worldwide.
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James Norrie
Head of International
Prior to joining Salt, James Norrie worked at Mel Gibson’s Icon Entertainment before moving to Capitol Films to head up their international sales division.
James has overseen the sales of a diverse range of films including blockbusters The Passion of the Christ, What Women Want and Apocalypto and other critical and commercial success such as Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, An Ideal Husband and The Edge of Love.
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Susan Wrubel
us consultant
Susan Wrubel heads up Salt’s New York office with a remit to bring in English-language projects for acquisition, financing or packaging. Additionally Susan looks for projects to shoot in Puerto Rico with Pimienta. A film executive with over 14 years’ experience in film acquisitions, sales, marketing, and distribution, Susan spent 11 years in the New York arthouse world before moving to Los Angeles in 2004 as the VP of Acquisitions and Co-Productions for Paramount Pictures’ specialty division, Paramount Classics. Susan acquired box office hit Mad Hot Ballroom out of the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival and handled the sublicensing of Paramount Classics’ foreign rights to independent distributors abroad.
Susan is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
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Nina Kolokouri
Operations and new media
After graduating with an MBA from Athens University, Nina Kolokouri joined Oniria Film, a Luxembourg‐based animation production company, eventually becoming a Managing Director, having launched their sales division as the Head of the Commercial Unit from 2002 to 2006. During Nina’s tenure, Oniria produced three TV series including Shadows of the Elves and two features, Tristan and Isolde and Renart the Fox which was shortlisted for the Academy Award in 2005 and won audience awards at both Anima and FIFEM.
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Piers Tempest
head of Production
Salt’s head of Production Piers Tempest gained hands-on production experience with Working Title Films before embarking on freelance work with directors including Philip Kaufman on Fox Searchlight’s Quills starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate Winslet.
His producer credits include the AFI Award-nominee for Best Picture, The Oyster Farmer, Like Minds starring Toni Collette, Killing Bono starring Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan and Pete Postlethwaite, The Caller with Rachelle Lefevre and Stephen Moyer and Jon Wright’s horror-comedy Grabbers. He served as co-producer on James Toback’s When Will I Be Loved starring Neve Campbell and Jamie Morgan’s The Workshop.
Piers is a member of the IFC producer network advising on worldwide co-production and financing.
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Cyril Mégret
Director
A graduate of the London School of Economics, Salt founding Director Cyril Mégret has been a Senior Advisor to the International Film Collective (IFC) media group since 2002.
An alumnus of Michael Kuhn’s UK Film Council training programme, Inside Pictures, Cyril began his film industry career with private investment fund Bonaparte Films on features including the international hit Waking Ned Devine, novelist William Boyd’s directorial debut The Trench and Nick Love’s Goodbye Charlie Bright on which Cyril served as executive producer. Cyril is also a director of the independent music labels Surrender All and Full Time Hobby with artists including UNKLE, School of Seven Bells, Tunng, The Hold Steady and Malcolm Middleton.
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Samantha Horley
Managing Director
Managing Director of Salt, Samantha Horley has more than 13 years’ experience in international sales, working with prestigious companies including PolyGram, Summit and Myriad. She has handled sales for a diverse and impressive array of films including box office hits Fargo, American Pie, The Blair Witch Project, Memento, U‐571 and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Samantha has been Managing Director of Lumina Films (as Salt was formerly known) since September 2004.
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Robert Bevan
Director
With a background in marketing and finance, Salt founding Director Robert Bevan began to focus on film financing in 1999, and since then has served as Executive Producer on more than 30 feature films. He was a founding director of Buena Onda and Lumina Films in 2003.
In 2004, together with James Lavelle of UNKLE and Mo’Wax fame and IFC, Robert helped to set up the record label Surrender All. He is also a director of the independent record labels Full Time Hobby and Hassle Records.
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