Salt Springs Productions was founded by James Moyer and Michael Affleck to produce a range of personal, bold, and innovative projects for film, television, music, and conceptual art. As writers, educators, and activists, Moyer and Affleck build partnerships around a commitment to creative freedom and social questioning where art generates transformative conversations.
James Moyer is a screenwriter, songwriter, and conceptual artist. He taught literature, philosophy, and cinema studies at Moore College of Art and Design and The Curtis Institute of Music, both in Philadelphia, after a PhD in English from Princeton University. A former member of NYPIRG"s state board of directors, he founded ECOS (Environmentally Conscious Organized Students) for high school students in New York and Massachusetts.. At Princeton, he co-founded Scholars in the Schools (SITS) to facilitate knowledge-sharing between graduate students and public school teachers and students. He has published articles on film theory and on William Blake's poetry and art, and presented on Yasujiro Ozu's films and on philosophy's role in the critique of fine art. He sees cinema as a perceptual apparatus for meditative realism, alongside its visceral story-telling power. Many of his songs interweave voices of children and adults on difficult topics,, as in "Song of the Child Brides." HIs fine art is designed to reveal the conceptual role of money in art-world signification--i..e., paradoxically only capital can instantiate the spiritual transformation of commodities in a post-artisanal world.
​A judge, attorney, professor of theology, and environmental activist, Mike Affleck is the former International Coordinator for Greenpeace on the successful campaigns to restore the ozone layer and to change how paper worldwide is made (now chlorine free). Based in Amsterdam, he met with Pope John Paul II to convince the Vatican to use chlorine-free paper, which led to widespread adoption. He had tea with Princess Diana, which led to a meeting with Prince Charles and the latter’s keynote at the historic ozone conference in London. With the assistance of Edgar Bronfman of Seagrams, a large holder of DuPont stock, Mike organized the first Greenpeace campaign in Israel to eliminate ozone-depleting CFCs, almost overnight changing the industry’s practices in Europe and beyond. Founder of the Nevada Desert Experience, he helped lead an international effort to end nuclear weapons testing, which was a danger to peace, an environmental catastrophe, and a crime against the Native peoples whose land was used. (A worldwide test ban was signed in 1996.) He lives in Upstate New York and has a ministry to provide food assistance to families and children of Syracuse, half of whom live in poverty. Mike has a family, a dog named Luna, and two doctorates, grows his own food without chemicals, and finds time to write screenplays, act, draw, and model for artists. For him, life is sweet as honey.​
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