Amy Baer

President & Owner, Gidden Media

Amy Baer is an accomplished film producer and executive with over 35 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Throughout her career, she has supervised and produced films that have collectively grossed over $2 billion worldwide.

Baer is the founder of Gidden Media, launched in 2012 after raising a seven-figure development fund. She has produced - via that fund - several notable films including the 2017 IFC romantic drama “Mary Shelley” starring Elle Fanning, Bleecker Street's inspirational true story “Brian Banks” starring Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear (which won the Audience Award at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival), and the upcoming 2024 drama “The Apprentice” starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Baer also produced the 2013 hit comedy “Last Vegas” starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline.

Baer was most recently the President of Landline Pictures, a film production label she launched in February 2020 in partnership with MRC Film (“American Fiction”), and focusing on producing films for 50+ audiences. Under Baer's leadership, Landline Pictures produced the 2022 Paramount+ release "Jerry & Marge Go Large" starring Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, and is set to produce the upcoming HBO Max romantic comedy "The Back Nine," starring Renee Zellweger and to be directed by Michael Patrick King.

Before starting her own company, Baer served as President & CEO of CBS Films (2007-2011), launching the division for CBS Corp. She spent the previous 17 years at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she oversaw such hit films as 1997’s “My Best Friend’s Wedding”, Oscar-nominated “Adaptation” (2001), “Something’s Gotta Give” (2003), “The Holiday” (2006) and the Oscar-nominated “Moneyball” (2011) She began her career at Creative Artists Agency in 1988 as an assistant to the late Jay Moloney.