Production
Jonathan Baker
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.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
7.6In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
The Banker
2020
5.2A 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
2026
6.2When 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
2020
NRTwo mental patients' romantic break-up turns violent when one won't take no for an answer.
Harper Finch
2016
NRTwo mental patients' romantic break-up turns violent when one won't take no for an answer.
Harper Finch
2016
NRTwo mental patients' romantic break-up turns violent when one won't take no for an answer.
Harper Finch
2016
NRTracing 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
2023
4.1In 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
2019
4.1In 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
2019