Sean Baker is an American film/TV director and co-creator of Greg the Bunny

Greg the Bunny

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. In the show,...

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Biography

A New York based filmmaker, Baker received his BA in Film Studies in 1992 from New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

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Baker, along with Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano, created the characters of Greg the Bunny

Greg the Bunny

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. In the show,...

. Baker co-wrote, co-directed and co-edited many of the episodes that were made for the Independent Film Channel

Independent Film Channel

The Independent Film Channel is an American cable TV network that airs independent film and related programming. IFC programming includes commercially interrupted feature-length films, original documentaries, shorts, animated series, original series, acquired series, and content exclusively for...

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His first feature, "Four Letter Words", a study of adolescent males in Suburbia USA, premiered at South by Southwest

South by Southwest

South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...

 2001. It is currently being released on DVD and VOD by Vanguard Cinema.

Take Out

Take Out (feature film)

Take Out is a 2004 independent film depicting a day-in-the-life of an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City...

, Baker's second feature, which he
co-directed with Shih-Ching Tsou

Shih-Ching Tsou

Shih-Ching Tsou is a Taiwan-born film director and co-creator of Take Out.-Biography:Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Tsou came to New York for her Master's degree in Media Studies at The New School. It was at The New School where she met Sean Baker...

, premiered at the Slamdance film
festival, and won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award and Best Feature
award at the Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival

The Nashville Film Festival , held annually in Nashville, Tennessee, is the oldest running film festival in the South and one of the oldest in the United States. In 2009, Nashville Film Festival received close to 2000 submissions from 86 countries, programmed nearly 260 films and had an attendance...

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drama about an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York City. CAVU
Pictures released Take Out in theaters nationwide.
Prince Of Broadway, Baker's third film, premiered at the Los Angeles
Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative
Feature. It was the only US feature in competition at Locarno, where it
won a Special Jury Mention in the Filmmakers of the Present section.
The film went on to win at Woodstock, Torino and Belfort. Baker is
currently working on his fourth film, Left-Handed Girl, a
family drama set in Taiwan.

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