Jonathan Baker

Producer

Jonathan Baker

10 films

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.

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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.

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The Banker posterFirst watchThe Banker20207.6Their style at its most typical, and among their best-rated work.In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.View film

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Filmography

10 films
  1. 2026The DutchmanProducer
  2. 2023Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't TellExecutive Producer
  3. 2021The One and Only Dick GregoryCo-Executive Producer
  4. 2020The BankerProducer
  5. 2020Sylvie's LoveProducer
  6. 2017Basmati BluesCo-Producer
  7. 2017Crown HeightsExecutive Producer
  8. 2017HalfwayExecutive Producer
  9. 2016Harper FinchProducer
  10. 2003Fang vs. Fiction: The Real Underworld of Vampires and WerewolvesCo-Producer