Amy Baer’s experience in the entertainment industry uniquely spans major studios, independent financiers, and producing. Collectively, the films she has supervised and/or produced have grossed nearly $2 billion worldwide. Her first film as a producer was the 2013 hit Last Vegas, starring Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline, which grossed $136 million worldwide.

In 2012, Baer raised a seven-figure development fund and launched Gidden Media, a content incubation and production company. Its first film, the romantic drama Mary Shelley, starring Elle Fanning (The Beguiled) and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda), had its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. It was released by IFC in May 2018. Gidden Media’s next film, the inspirational true story Brian Banks, had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on September 22, 2018, and won the LAFF Audience Award. Starring Aldis Hodge (Underground) and Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) and directed by Tom Shadyac (Bruce Almighty), the film tells the story of Brian Banks, an All-American high school football player whose life was upended in 2002 when falsely accused of rape. With the help of the California Innocence Project, Banks got his conviction overturned and his name cleared in 2012 after a decade of wrongful imprisonment and parole. Bleecker Street released Brian Banks on August 9, 2019.

Before starting her own company, Baer served as President and CEO of CBS Films (2007– 2011), launching the division for CBS Corp. Baer spent the previous 17 years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she oversaw such hit films as My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), Oscar-nominated Adaptation (2001), S.W.A.T. (2002), Something’s Gotta Give (2003), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), which earned Will Smith an Oscar nomination. She also developed the Oscar-nominated Sony hit Moneyball (2011), starring Brad Pitt. She began her career at Creative Artists Agency in 1988 as an assistant to the late Jay Moloney.

Baer became board president of Women In Film in June 2018, stepping into the role at a critical juncture in Hollywood, as the entertainment industry faces a broad reckoning over gender disparities and sexual harassment. Founded in 1973, Women In Film advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries—to achieve parity and transform culture.

Baer graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 1988 with a bachelor of arts in English literature. She is married to producer Matt Baer (Unbroken) and has two sons.