Nick Taussig

Nick Taussig – Founder/ Managing Director, Salon Pictures

Since founding Salon with Paul Van Carter in 2013, Nick Taussig has produced 19 feature films including Ian Bonhote & Peter Ettedgui’s double BAFTA-nominated McQueen, Jonathan Teplitzky’s Churchill, and auteur Andrew Kotting’s Lek & The Dogs. Nick has recently directed A Space in Time with Riccardo Servini, a feature documentary response to the diagnosis of his two sons, Theo and Oskar, with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal muscle wasting disease. It will be released by Bohemia Media in February 2021. In addition, he is the author of four novels, his most recent, The Distinguished Assassin.

Before his career in book and film, Nick studied literature and philosophy at Durham University, where he obtained a First, then went on to acquire a Master’s in Russian literature from the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is also co-founder of Mtaala Foundation, an education partnership and sponsorship programme to create and support a school for vulnerable children and at-risk youth in Uganda; and a trustee of Harrison’s Fund, which fights Duchenne muscular dystrophy, getting as much money as possible into the hands of the world’s best researchers, who are working to find a cure for this fatal genetic disease.