Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker is a charismatic award winning film director, producer, and screenwriter---a film maker. In 2001 and 2002, Elizabeth initiated formation of a visionary task force to work with New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and pass historic New Mexico film maker legislation. Elizabeth was instrumental in crafting this complex effort, and is credited with helping make New Mexico undisputed film capital of the Southwest.
Thanks to the foresight and help of Governor Johnson and astute members of the New Mexico State House and Senate, and with the crucial support of Elizabeth Baker's personal friends, film Super Stars Shirley MacLaine, Val Kilmer, and Marsha Mason, among others, New Mexico now leads a rebirth of the film industry itself. More. Immediately following the tragic events of September 11, as Press Secretary for New Mexico Lt. Governor Walter Bradley, Elizabeth produced Project Dreamcatcher. This was a complex operation she crafted and spearheaded. It put New Mexico Lt. Governor Bradley into the field with dozens of New Mexico team members, five tribal healers and two television crews, to conduct and document a spiritual healing ceremony among the smoking ruins of Ground Zero. Elizabeth saw to it that the delegation acquired and distributed some 10,000 hand-made healing Native American dreamcatcher talismans, to grateful New York schoolchildren and and firefighters.
Governor Of New Mexico Film Industry Letter Of Thanks
When Buffalo Roam
Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker worked on eleven independent films in Los Angeles before she wrote and directed her first documentary, the highly explosive expose, When Buffalo Roam. During the making of this seminal film, which exposed ongoing animal slaughter, of buffalo, Elizabeth faced personal danger when threatened at gunpoint by an enraged "hunter." She stood her ground, and even took ground back in her native Texan style: she forced the huge, armed thug to back off, in order to finish her important work, at any cost. This powerful, shocking film, made by a powerful woman, won the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival as Best Social Documentary Short of 1999.
The Trail Of Painted Ponies
The Trail of Painted Ponies, was Elizabeth Baker's movie production company's first feature length film. A moving, artistic, and uniquely structured masterpiece of passion, sincerity, and fascinating insight, narrated by film Super Star and friend Ali MacGraw, it won Best Documentary at the White Sands Film Festival, while Elizabeth was judged by Sony Classics in New York, and won Best Woman Director. A dramatically charged The Trail of Painted Ponies was selected by television station WLIW for a special PBS premier in New York State. The Trail of Painted Ponies was concomitantly exhibited in Albuquerque, NM as a show-cased item of New Mexico's Best Independent Films, which was sponsored by the New Mexico Film Commission itself.
Turner Classic Movies Said: ...the Trail of Painted Ponies is one of the world's most fascinating public art projects...About.com Said: Oscar nominee Ali MacGraw hosts this tour of an unusual form of personal expression...a striking correlation between artistic creations and personal identity.
Editorial Review Said: Celebrating the art, culture and music of the American Southwest. This dynamic and colorful documentary...has excited the imagination and captured the hearts of thousands. Whether you're an art lover or horse lover, you won’t want to miss experiencing this incredible cross-cultural event...
As a talented writer of vast sensitivity, Elizabeth Baker created a season of the acclaimed show Wild Rescues, for Animal Planet. She served for two years as an Associate Editor of Body Mind Spirit, and also founded an internet magazine called Spirit Matters. Elizabeth Gaylynn baker wrote prolifically, for the Santa Fean Magazine. She is putting the finishing touches on her screenplay, “Vivid Memories.”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
ELIZABETH GAYLYNN BAKER
NEW MEXICO FILMMAKER PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, WRITER
2002-2003
Baker worked closely with Shirley MacLaine, other super stars and politicos on a plan she conceived and organized to enlarge and vivify virtually the entire movie and film industry of New Mexico. With the help of friends, Government, and allies, Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker's contribution to New Mexico is universally acclaimed as one of the most successfully creative film industry enhancement programs accomplished ever, anywhere, at any time.
Signature Films - Founder
Movie Producer, Director, Writer, Editor The Trail of Painted Ponies, which was purchased by PBS for New York fund drive.
1997 – 2000
Deep Spirit Productions - Founder
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor "When Buffalo Roam", 1999 winner of Best Social Documentary – Short, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
Elizabeth Baker - A New Mexico Production Company
- Film maker
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
- Unit Production Manager
- Script Supervisor.
- Facilitator of Logistics and Means
- Manager
- All functions of a movie set
- Budget
- Schedule
- Breakdowns
- Actor and stunt coordination
- SAG negotiations
- Payroll
- Ordering of equipment
- Continuity
- Scene timing notes for editor
- More...
Operations are based in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and cover all of New Mexico.
Film Production – Feature and Documentaries:
Best Documentary
Best Film Produced - Directed By A Woman
Best Social Documentary
The Trail Of Painted PoniesSee Trailer Here
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Editorial Review
Celebrating the art, culture and music of the American Southwest. This dynamic and colorful documentary, narrated by Ali MacGraw featuring life-size horses "branded Art for Charity", has excited the imagination and captured the hearts of thousands. Whether you're an art lover or horse lover, you won’t want to miss experiencing this incredible cross-cultural event, highlighting the creative talents of world-renowned artists including, JD Challenger, Gregory Lomayesva, Roger Montoya, Joel Nakamura, Kevin Redstar, Robert Rivera, Star Liana York, Tavlos, Yellowman, and many more. Each horse in this herd of 120 ponies appears to be its own individual breed. Some are adorned with outrageous trappings; others have been cut apart and reassembled; some have been finished with paint; while others display intricate workings of glass and beads.... each is different and none will disappoint you.
When Buffalo Roam
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Governor Of New Mexico Film Industry Letter Of Thanks
Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker
Film - Movie Producer, Director, Writer
Santa Fe, Albuquerque, And All Of NM, USA, United States Of America
Phone: 505-920-2015
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