TEAM BIOS
PAMELA B. GREEN
Green is an Emmy-nominated, award winning filmmaker and founder of PIC. She is a Sundance Institute Documentary Fund recipient. Her documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché was Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival (Cannes Classics), Deauville, Telluride, NYFF, and BFI. The film released theatrically to critical acclaim in the U.S. and has opened worldwide in 42 countries. It was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Documentary Award and won a Clio for design and 2 FOCAL International awards.
She creative directs, produces film and TV main titles and graphics, among these the Bourne series, The Muppets, Twilight, Supergirl. Green has also created award packages. She advises on internal story sequences and directed commercials for Audi and other brands.
JAMIE WOLF/FOOTHILL PRODUCTIONS
Jamie Wolf is a journalist, editor, and photographer whose primary current occupation is executive-producing documentaries (and the occasional scripted feature) through her company, Foothill Productions, and as a member of Impact Partners, the Brooklyn-based documentary consortium. One of the original editors at The Washington Monthly, she went on to write for many periodicals, including The New Yorker; The Los Angeles Times Magazine; Los Angeles Magazine; Harper’s; and the LAWeekly. She is a founding board member of the Los Angeles Review of Books and serves as a trustee for PEN America. Over the past decade,Wolf has executive-produced numerous award-winning documentaries, including Born This Way (2013), directed by Shaun Kadlec); Dogtown Redemption (2015), directed by Amir Soltani; City of Gold (2015), directed by Laura Gabbert; Newtown (2016), directed by Kim Snyder; The Last Animals (2017), directed by Kate Brooks; and Walk, Run, Cha-Cha (2019), directed by Laura Nix. Her most recent projects have been The Truffle Hunters(2020) directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, as well as Kim Snyder’s film, US Kids (2020) which met with standing ovations at Sundance when it debuted there, has been showing at drive-in screenings throughout the year, and is scheduled to stream in late October on YouTube and then on Alamo. Aces Never Sleep represents a reunion for Wolf with Pamela B. Green; she was a hands-on executive producer on Green’s ground-breaking Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.
JOAN SIMON
Joan Simon is a writer, curator, editor and arts administrator who works independently for museums, foundations, publishers and diverse media organizations in the United States and in Europe.
Now living in Los Angeles, Simon was based in Paris for 20+ years. During her 5 years as curator-at large for New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated Alice Guy-Blaché: Cinema Pioneer and Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (with the Centre Pompidou). Simon also organized Lorna Simpson, the first retrospective in Europe devoted to this influential African-American artist (Jeu de Paume in collaboration with the Foundation of the Exhibition of Photography) and Sheila Hicks: Fifty Years, the artist’s first retrospective (Addison Gallery of American Art).
Most recently for Pamela B. Green’s feature documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy- Blaché, Simon served as co-writer and Executive Producer.
Former managing editor of Art in America (1974–83), a founding publisher/editor with poets Anne Waldman and Rob Padgett of Full Court Press (publishing Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Joe Brainard among others), Simon has also served as a museum director, written books, and contributed to journals and exhibition catalogues, as well as to films about art and artists.
COSIMA LITTLEWOOD
British-American filmmaker Cosima Littlewood first stepped onto a film set at twelve years old, acting alongside Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens in the BBC’s 2006 production of Jane Eyre. Her interest in history led her to write and direct A God For Every Sin, her thesis film at Sarah Lawrence College, about the ghost of a Korean “comfort woman” seeking revenge. The film screened at festivals in Seoul, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen. She recently served as researcher and co-producer of the feature documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, directed by Pamela B. Green.
NATHALIE SEAVER/FOOTHILL PRODUCTIONS
Nathalie Seaver began her film career working on Francois Truffaut’s Love on The Run in Paris. She’s held various development positions in film and television in New York and Los Angeles, at Universal, MGM/UA, Warner Brothers and Showtime, where she oversaw development and production as VP of Drama, Longform. Nathalie has continued to work as a creative consultant on film and publishing projects, while founding and running her eponymous clothing company. Nathalie Seaver joined Foothill Productions in 2018 as Executive VP. She is also an award-winning fine art photographer and has exhibited her work in NYC and Los Angeles galleries.