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Sean Baker is an American film/TV director and co-creator of Greg the Bunny.
[edit] Biography
A New York based filmmaker, Baker received his BA in Film Studies in 1992 from New York University.
Baker, along with Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano, created the characters of Greg the Bunny. Baker co-wrote, co-directed and co-edited many of the episodes that were made for the Independent Film Channel.
His first feature, "Four Letter Words", a study of adolescent males in Suburbia USA, premiered at South by Southwest 2001. It is currently being released on DVD and VOD by Vanguard Cinema.
Take Out, Baker's second feature, which he co-directed with Shih-Ching Tsou, premiered at the Slamdance film festival, and won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award and Best Feature award at the Nashville Film Festival. It is a social-realist 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.
