
Jonathan Baker
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Biography
Jonathan T. Baker is an American film producer, independent filmmaker, artistic coach, and adjunct professor. He is a two-time Emmy-nominated producer and a member of the Producer’s Guild of America. Baker has produced and executive-produced a range of feature films and documentaries, including Sylvie’s Love (Amazon Studios, 2020), The Banker (Apple), Crown Heights (Tribeca and Sundance Audience Award winner), Basmati Blues, and other independent projects. His company, JB Productions, Inc., develops and partners on diverse entertainment works across film, stage, and media. Before his producing career, Baker worked in film marketing and television research at Sony Pictures Entertainment and as a marketing manager at Screen Gems and TriStar Pictures, where he contributed to the release of numerous theatrical films. He also teaches in the Masters of Entertainment Industry Management program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and at the University of Bologna’s GIOCA graduate program.
Known For

A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.
The Dutchman

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
The Banker

When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Sylvie's Love

Linda Watt is a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9," a genetically modified rice she's created. However, unbeknownst to her, the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.
Basmati Blues

When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Crown Heights

This revealing portrait of comedian, activist, pop-culture icon and thought leader Dick Gregory documents his many personal reinventions throughout the decades, from celebrity to civil rights hero and beyond, while hearing from the incredible entertainers who have been inspired by his blueprint.
The One and Only Dick Gregory

A recently released convict finds himself trapped between his urban criminal past and his new life on probation as the only black man in a conservative white Wisconsin farming town.
Halfway

Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.
Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Using clips from classic horror films and contemporary interviews, this cable-TV documentary tries to separate truth from fable in discussing vampires and werewolves -- a task that often proves impossible. After noting that fear of the supernatural stems from mankind's basic terror involving darkness and awe of the moon, the film ticks off several documented cases of "actual" blood sucking and lycanthropy. Among those interviewed are weapons experts, scientists, sociologists, and movie buffs, as well as a few hardy souls who claim to be genuine Dracula and Wolfman clones. Originally slated to air during Halloween weekend in 2003, Fang vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld of Vampires and Werewolves was moved forward two months as an extended promotion for the upcoming theatrical feature Underworld, which, of course, dealt with the same terrifying subject matter. [Hal Erickson]
Fang vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld of Vampires and Werewolves

In this absurdist satire, an awkward physics genius and a hot ex-Catholic sorority girl wake up after blacking out Halloween night to discover they missed the evacuation of Earth. A mysterious agent pursues the feuding couple as they figure out how to work together to solve the recently entangled multi-verse and ultimately try to save humanity from AI.
Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime

Two mental patients' romantic break-up turns violent when one won't take no for an answer.