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Sean Baker
Baker in 2024
Born	Sean S. Baker (1971-02-26) February 26, 1971 (age 53) Summit, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	New York University (BA)
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	Samantha Quan

Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and sex workers. His films include Take Out (2004), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021), and Anora (2024), the last of which won him the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay. He is also known for co-creating the Fox/IFC puppet sitcom Greg the Bunny (2002–2006) and its spin-offs.

Early life and education

Baker was born on February 26, 1971. He was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey. His mother was a teacher and his father was a patent attorney who once represented the director and his production company in a dispute over the title of his film Take Out. He has a sister who is a professional synth-pop musician and production designer who has contributed to his films in both capacities. He became obsessed with homemade movies at a young age after his mother took him to see Universal Monster films being projected at the local library.

Baker graduated from Gill St. Bernard's High School in 1989. He received his B.A. in film studies from New York University through the Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to NYU, he studied non-linear editing at The New School in Greenwich Village.

Career

Baker is known for directing independent feature films about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and sex workers.

His first feature film was Four Letter Words, a film revolving around the looks, views, attitudes, and language of young men in America. Baker wrote, directed, and edited the film.

He then went on to make Take Out (2004), which he co-wrote, co-directed, co-edited, and co-produced with Shih-Ching Tsou on a budget of $3000. The film revolves around an undocumented Chinese immigrant falling behind on payments on a smuggling debt, leaving him only one day to come up with the money. The film had its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival on January 18, 2004 and had been screened at over 25 film festivals when a legal dispute with Seth Landau, who was planning to release a film with the same name, delayed its release until June 6, 2008.

Baker's third feature film, Prince of Broadway, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 22, 2008. The film follows a Ghanaian immigrant selling knock off merchandise in Manhattan who discovers that he has a son. Baker directed, wrote, co-produced, shot, and edited the film, and also self-financed the distribution and advertising of the film. Take Out and Prince of Broadway were nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award at the same ceremony in 2008.

The director's fourth feature, Starlet, was co-written with Chris Bergoch, and stars Dree Hemingway and Besedka Johnson. Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane (Hemingway) and 85-year-old Sadie (Johnson), two women whose lives intersect in California's San Fernando Valley. The film had its world premiere at SXSW on March 11, 2012 and was given a limited release on November 9, 2012.

Baker's fifth feature, Tangerine, follows a transgender sex worker who discovers her boyfriend and pimp has been cheating on her. The film was shot using three iPhone 5S smartphones, and received praise for its groundbreaking filmmaking techniques. Tangerine features Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan, and James Ransone, and was executive-produced by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass. Baker again co-wrote the script with Bergoch; he also co-produced, co-shot, and edited the film. It had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2015, and was given a limited release on July 10, 2015. It received extremely positive reviews, and holds a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In 2016, he directed Snowbird, a short fashion film starring model Abbey Lee for Kenzo. It was also shot only using iPhones.

Baker's sixth feature, The Florida Project, premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released in the United States on October 6, 2017, by A24. Baker edited the film himself and co-wrote the script with his frequent collaborator Chris Bergoch. The plot follows a 6-year-old girl living in a motel with her rebellious mother in Greater Orlando as they try to stay out of trouble and make ends meet. The film was praised for its performances (particularly that of Willem Dafoe as the motel manager and Brooklynn Prince as Moonie, a six-year-old girl) as well as for Baker's direction, and was chosen by both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute as one of the top 10 films of the year. Dafoe earned Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Oscars, Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards, and Prince won the Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.

I am an ally and have literally devoted my career to tell stories that remove stigma and normalize lifestyles that are under attack. I would never do anything that could possibly hurt the community.

In August 2020, actress Bella Thorne announced that Baker would be directing a documentary about her experiences opening an OnlyFans account, but Baker quickly denied the rumor as Thorne's suspicious behavior was blamed for restrictions affecting all sex workers on the site.

In March 2021, Baker released short film Khaite FW21 produced for fashion line Khaite to promote its Fall/Winter 2021 lineup. Sean Price Williams served as cinematographer.

Baker's seventh feature film, Red Rocket, stars Simon Rex as Mikey, a pornographic actor returning to his hometown in Texas. Baker directed, co-wrote and co-produced the film with his usual team of Bergoch and Tsou among others. Filming took place in secret amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, but "industry-standard safety protocols" were observed. The film received a standing ovation at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in the US by A24 on December 10.

In 2022, Baker directed a Taco Bell commercial. Baker executive-produced a documentary called Love in the Time of Fentanyl. It premiered at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in May 2022.

In October 2023, Baker's next feature film Anora, starring Mikey Madison, was officially announced after distribution rights were acquired by FilmNation. At a press conference during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered, Baker spoke about the topic of intimacy coordinators: "I think with intimacy coordination, it's a case-by-case basis, film by film basis. If an actor requests one, 100% But I have directed approximately 10 sex scenes throughout my career, and I'm very comfortable doing so. It is our No. 1 priority to keep our actors safe, protected, comfortable and involved in the process". For Anora, Baker became the first American director to win the Palme d'Or since Terrence Malick in 2011.

Television

Baker is also one of the original creators of the sitcom Greg the Bunny (2002–2006), starring Seth Green and Eugene Levy. The show is based on a series of short segments that Baker directed and wrote, which aired on the Independent Film Channel and which were in turn based on a public-access television show called Junktape. In 2010, Baker, Spencer Chinoy, and Dan Milano created a spinoff called Warren the Ape; the series aired on MTV and was canceled after one season.

Recognition

In June 2018, Baker was invited to be a member of the directors and writers branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In October 2018, he was the head of the film jury at the Mumbai International Film Festival.

Style and influences

Baker has established a reputation for portraying outcasts and characters from underrepresented and marginalized subcultures, frequently undocumented immigrants and sex workers, in decidedly humane and compassionate scenarios. He claims to have been directly inspired by exploitation films but he has been described as the archetype of a "trustworthy male director" in a post Me Too era. His films have stirred and encouraged a debate about sexual morality.

Baker's influences include Ken Loach, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Leigh, Steven Spielberg, Éric Rohmer, John Cassavetes, and Hal Ashby, among others.

Baker has stated that he consciously includes Easter egg references to other movies in his filmography. For example, a billboard advertising a performance by the character named Strawberry from Red Rocket can be seen at the end of Anora.

Personal life

Baker is married to Samantha Quan, a producer on many of his films. As of July 2021, they had two dogs, Bunsen and Boonee, the latter of whom acted in his 2012 film Starlet. Baker stated at a 2024 Cannes press conference that he believes sex work should be "decriminalized and not in any way regulated, because it's a sex worker's body and it's up to them to decide how they will use it in their livelihood." Baker suffered from opiate addiction in his twenties.

Filmography

Film

Executive producer

• Love in the Time of Fentanyl (2022)
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
• Modern Whore (TBA)

Short film

Television

Accolades

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External links

• Sean Baker at IMDb
• Sean Baker on Twitter
• Sean Baker on Letterboxd

• 1971 births
• American cinematographers
• American film editors
• American male television writers
• American television directors
• Directors of Palme d'Or winners
• Film directors from New Jersey
• Film directors from New York (state)
• Gill St. Bernard's School alumni
• Living people
• People from Summit, New Jersey
• Screenwriters from New Jersey
• Tisch School of the Arts alumni