Eva Kolodner is a former independent film producer and co-founder of New York-based Salty Features.
[3] While working with Killer Films, Kolodner produced with Kimberly Peirce, then an undergrad at Columbia University, the Academy Award-winning film Boys Don't Cry based on Peirce's script.
[3][4] In 2000, she became Head of Production at Madstone Films, where she produced Rhinoceros Eyes, directed by Aaron Woodley and starring Michael Pitt, which won the Discovery Award at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival.
At Madstone she hired Yael Melamede, who had trained as an architect but moved into the film industry in 1996, as a production supervisor.
[9] Kolodner was nominated for the Independent Spirit Producer's Award, and in 2002 was selected for Crain's New York Business’ “40 Under 40.”[4] Kolodner married Eliza Starr Byard, whom she'd met while they were undergraduates at Yale, in 2004.