Jonathan Baker

Production

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime

4.1(0.0K)

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.

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Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime

Agent

Tracing the U.S. military's long history of discrimination against the gay community and one couple's personal journey for acceptance.

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Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Director

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The Dutchman

4.7(0.0K)

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.

Halfway

5.5(0.0K)

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.

Sylvie's Love

6.2(0.1K)

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.

Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime

4.1(0.0K)

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Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime

Director

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The Banker

7.6(1.1K)

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

The One and Only Dick Gregory

7.6(0.0K)

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.

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The One and Only Dick Gregory

Co-Executive Producer

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Crown Heights

6.6(0.1K)

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

Basmati Blues

4.1(0.0K)

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.

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Basmati Blues

Co-Producer