Jack Garfein Documentary ‘The Wild One,’ Narrated by Willem Dafoe, Debuts Trailer Ahead of Tribeca Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)

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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorFeature documentary “The Wild One,” which looks at the life of Jack Garfein, Holocaust survivor, Broadway director, Actors Studio West co-founder, and controversial filmmaker, has debuted its trailer.

Tessa Louise-Salomé’s film, which is narrated by Willem Dafoe, will have its world premiere on Saturday at Tribeca Film Festival.

The Party Film Sales is handling sales.As well as Garfein and Dafoe, the doc features Peter Bogdanovich, Irène Jacob, Bobby Soto, Dick Guttman, Blanche Baker, Patricia Bosworth, Foster Hirsch, Geoffrey Horne and Kate Rennebohm.“The Wild One” examines how Garfein’s experience in the concentration camps shaped his vision of acting as a survival mechanism and propelled his engagement with themes of violence, power and racism in postwar America in two explosive films: “The Strange One” (1957) and “Something Wild” (1961).The doc explores the importance of his legacy as an artist who confronted censorship and reveals how art can draw on personal memory to better enlighten our present.

Louise-Salomé, who helmed Sundance Jury Prize nominee “Mr. Leos caraX,” is a Paris-based director, writer and producer. Her work is characterized by visually poetic approaches to storytelling.In a statement, Louise-Salomé said that when she watched Garfein’s films, she was “immediately seduced by the darkness and complexity of his characters, by the modernity of his directing style, by his sheer audacity as a filmmaker.”She added: “Maybe it was his way of bringing art to the actors that affected me, creating emotion through silence and subtext, rather than dialogue, favoring gesture over language.