Sean Baker (born February 26, 1971) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of sex workers, including 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. He is also known for creating the Fox/IFC puppet sitcom Greg the Bunny (2002–2006) and its spin-offs.
When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.
Release Date: 2024-12-13
Department: Crew
Job: Thanks
Vote Count: 21
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
Release Date: 2024-10-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1113
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Release Date: 2024-04-26
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 18
Release Date: 2023-10-01
Character: Self - Guest
Episode Count: 1
Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over eight decades, as well as looking to the future.
Release Date: 2023-06-12
Character: Self
Vote Count: 4
An intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.
Release Date: 2023-02-03
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
A feature-length documentary going behind-the-scenes on the making of the 2015 film Tangerine.
Release Date: 2022-12-19
Character: Self
In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye Lee, and Jeng-Hua Yu consider the making of the film and its importance in their lives since.
Release Date: 2022-09-13
Character: Self
Vote Count: 1
The stories of ordinary folks who confront the evil that was always right in front of them. Through the lens of home archive, we journey with our insiders into shocking crimes to reveal what was missed before tragedy changed everything.
Release Date: 2022-08-09
Department: Crew
Job: Post Production Supervisor
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 3
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged wife and mother-in-law are living. Just as this dysfunctional family seems to be making things work, Mikey meets a young woman named Strawberry working the cash register at a local doughnut shop.
Release Date: 2021-12-10
Department: Production
Job: Casting
Vote Count: 508
PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of directors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.
Release Date: 2021-03-03
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.
Release Date: 2020-03-23
In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer and creator of the splatter movie. In 2019, the footage formed the basis for this documentary produced by the Criterion Channel.
Release Date: 2019-10-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character:
Young Natalie tries to help her mysteriously ill best friend.
Release Date: 2019-06-20
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 4
An interesting featurette which has some good behind the scenes footage, including early location scouting, table reads and interactions with the often near out of control kids.
Release Date: 2018-02-20
Vote Count: 2
Release Date: 2017-11-16
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Release Date: 2017-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2795
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
Release Date: 2015-07-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 704
An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.
Release Date: 2012-11-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 172
A New York street hustler specializing in name-brand knock-offs finds his highly profitable game suddenly complicated when his ex-girlfriend shows up toting the son he never knew he had.
Release Date: 2010-09-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 13
Warren the Ape is an MTV reality show parody which ran from June 14 to August 30, 2010 and aired at 10:30 p.m. The series is a spin-off of the IFC and Fox TV show Greg the Bunny, and follows the titular character's life as he tries to get his life back together following the cancellation of Greg the Bunny. Warren has paid more attention to drugs, booze, and women than his career, which has degenerated into a series of seedy exploitation films, obscure industrials, low-rent theater productions, and a regrettable string of skin flicks. With the help of his addiction specialist, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Warren tries to clean up his act, patch up his relationships, and claw his way back into the Hollywood limelight.
Release Date: 2010-06-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
In this documentary, produced by Sean Baker in 2009, the directors and actors of Take Out discuss making the film.
Release Date: 2009-01-01
Character: Self
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.
Release Date: 2004-05-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 28
A young man is haunted by a nocturnal demon who may or may not be the woman he loves.
Release Date: 2002-10-31
Department: Editing
Job: Editor
Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy wrote and co-produced the Fox show. The show was spun off from The Greg the Bunny Show, a series of short segments that aired on the Independent Film Channel, which were based on the Public-access television cable TV show Junktape. A show spin-off, called Warren the Ape, premiered on June 14, 2010 on MTV.
Release Date: 2002-03-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 12
A car drives through the streets and tunnels of New York City. On board, four teenagers talk, play, and flirt. An innocent joyride amongst friends? Right away the viewer understands that this is not just simple fun as the drugs get in the way.
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
A study of the post-adolescent male psyche, Four Letter Words gives an often humorous but raw unadulterated look at the views, attitudes, and language of young men in suburban America. The film focuses on a dwindling summer night's party, at which the characters gather for the first time since high school graduation. As the night's activities take their toll, the immaturity level rises, the profanity flies and of course the drunken brawl breaks out. It will be a night to remember although some would wish to forget.
Release Date: 2000-08-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 7
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their own way, will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and succeed in maintaining the family unity. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her “devil hand”.
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
A hybrid documentary that will be told from Andrea Werhun’s perspective and have her portray her former escort alias Mary Ann and her stripper persona Sophia, as well a more recent foray into OnlyFans as part of her sex work career in Toronto.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer