{"title":"Kelley Baker","description":"Kelley Baker has lived \"The New Model of Independent Filmmaking\" for many years. He has found funding for his no-budget films and successfully self distributed them all over the US and Canada. Kelley has written and directed three full length features (Birddog, The Gas Café, \u0026amp; Kicking Bird), eight short films and a few documentaries. Kelley films have aired on PBS, The Learning Channel, and Canadian and Australian television and have been shown at Film Festivals including London, Sydney, Annecy, Sao Paulo, Chicago, Aspen, Mill Valley and Edinburgh. Kelley Baker is well known for working with other people. He was the sound designer on six of Gus Van Sant's feature films including, My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, and Finding Forrester. He designed the sound on Todd Haynes feature film, Far From Heaven, with Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore. He was the picture editor\/sound designer on Will Vinton's The Adventure's of Mark Twain, and Meet The Raisins for CBS. Kelley is producing and directing DANGEROUS: KAY BOYLE, a feature documentary chronicling the life of \"the most dangerous woman in America\" (S.I. Hiyakawa, 1967). And, The American Dream: A Work in Progress. Kelley attended the University of Southern California. He received a BA (1980) and an MFA (1982) in Film Production, and did post graduate work at the American Film Institute (1989). Kelley has received a Western States Media Arts Fellowship, and grants from the SOROS Fund, Pioneer Fund for Emerging Documentary Filmmakers, The Collins Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, The Jackson Foundation, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust, and The Maurie Clark Foundation. He has done documentaries for the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Juvenile Justice Office of the Department of Justice. Kelley has spent years touring the US, Canada and the UK, teaching his subversive brand of filmmaking at workshops and showing his films to audiences at Art House Theaters, Colleges, Universities and Media Art Centers. Kelley has appeared in over 300 cities and 400 venues. For more information check out www.angryfilmmaker.com","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kelley-baker.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}