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He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of sex workers, [2] [3] 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.
Sean Baker is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is an award-winning writer/director/producer known for Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), and The Florida Project (2017). Sean's latest feature, Red Rocket, premiered at Cannes on July 14, 2021.
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- New York City, New York, USA
Dec 10, 2021 · Part journeyman anthropologist and part mondo filmmaker, Baker trains his camera on (mostly distaff) worlds that often lie beneath the threshold of public consciousness, from...
May 25, 2024 · S ean Baker's “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the Palme...
Dec 16, 2021 · The leading man in “Red Rocket” made his name as a comic rapper and an MTV video jockey. His character’s wife is played by a longtime theater actress with almost no film experience. And the...
Dec 17, 2021 · RogerEbert.com interviewed Baker about the making of “Red Rocket,” dashing his own dreams of directing a “Fast & Furious” movie, his favorite movies of 2021, and more. Has the film settled in your brain more since when it premiered at Cannes this past year?
Sean Baker is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is an award-winning writer/director/producer known for Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), and The Florida Project (2017). Sean's latest feature, Red Rocket, premiered at Cannes on July 14, 2021.
