Salty Pictures is a pan-Asian film and TV production house based in Hong Kong and Beijing.
Salty’s first picture was CAVE RESCUE, a gripping portrayal of the harrowing rescue of the “Wild Boars” soccer team in northern Thailand in 2018, released by Lionsgate in August 2022.
Salty Pictures was founded in 2018 by Jonah Greenberg, an executive with over 20 years of experience in Asia’s entertainment industry. Greenberg named the company after his grandfather Waldo Salt, an American screenwriter.
Jonah Greenberg
Founder / CEO
As Managing Director of Creative Artist Agency’s China office from 2012-2018, Greenberg was instrumental in packaging several blockbuster films and launching many lasting careers. Greenberg’s producing credits include ONE LAST DANCE, which premiered in competition at Sundance in 2005, and SHADOW, which was directed by Zhang Yimou and premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival.
Before helping to start up CAA’s Beijing office in 2005, Greenberg was a producer in Beijing and worked on Zhang Yang’s semi-autobiographical film SUNFLOWER, as well as the co-productions THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI, THE PAINTED VEIL and JADE WARRIOR.
Jennifer Salt
Director of Development
Claire Hu
Head of Production
Waldo Miller Salt was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1950’s but later recovered triumphantly and won Academy Awards for both MIDNIGHT COWBOY and COMING HOME.
Waldo Salt’s selected screenwriting works:
MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
COMING HOME (1978)
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1975)
SERPICO (1973) ()