Meet the Team
Tim Blake Nelson
President
Tim is an actor, writer, director, and producer who has appeared in over ninety films including O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Lincoln, Holes, Minority Report, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Old Henry. His playwriting credits include Socrates, The Grey Zone, Eye of God, and the soon to be produced And Then We Were No More. He directed the films O, Leaves of Grass, The Grey Zone, Eye of God and Anesthesia, the last four of which he also wrote. His first novel, City of Blows, was published in 2023 and was released in paperback in early 2024.
Hannah Blake
Vice President of Development
Hannah Blake is the Vice President of Development at Red Barn Films. She moved to New York City in 2023, first working at Visit Films as the Festivals Assistant before joining Tim Blake Nelson and Red Barn in February 2024. Previously she worked as a chemist at Cambridge Isotope Laboratories in Andover, Massachusetts for two years. She is a 2021 graduate of Middlebury College with degrees in Chemistry and Film & Media Culture.
Julie Buck
Creative Executive Producer
Julie Buck is a film producer, production manager and filmmaker. Her projects have premiered at numerous festivals worldwide, including Anesthesia (Tribeca), Loop Planes (SXSW), Trouble (Seattle) Double Exposed (HotDocs), A Kid Like Jake and Crown Heights (both Sundance). As a line producer and production manager, she has budgeted and scheduled hundreds of independent films. As a producer she has worked from the early stages of development to seeing films play and sell at major festivals. Julie holds an MFA in film producing from Columbia University and is a member of both the Director's Guild of America and the Producer’s Guild of America. She also serves as an Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
Henry Nelson
Producer-Director
Henry Nelson is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in Jazz Composition. He wrote and directed the film ASLEEP IN MY PALM for which he also wrote the score. He is a founding member of the collective Probable Voltages as well as the indie rock band Early Worm.