Fred Baker

On the Sound

Fred Baker

Mary Hinkson, Donald McKayle

A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.

Dawn of the Dead

George A. Romero

David Emge, Ken Foree

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

White Trash

Fred Baker

Brian Patrick, Jack Betts

About the day after a young hustler named CC has died of AIDS. Like him, his pals Casino, Rio and girlfriend Rita, pregnant with his child, are all street prostitutes caught up in high-risk sex and drug-taking in West Hollywood.

Working Girls

Lizzie Borden

Louise Smith, Deborah Banks

A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.

Fred Baker - filmmaker

Louis Proyect

Fred Baker, Louis Proyect

The house he lived In: A conversation with Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker , director , screenwriter , film producer, actor and jazz musician. A shining example of America's bohemian underground that has been around since the days of Walt Whitman. A sensualist. His favorite topics are sex, art, food and politics. To the rhythm of New York and Lenny Bruce.

Lenny Bruce: Without Tears

Fred Baker

Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen

The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a close friend, Fred Baker, who prefers to remember the laughs Lenny Bruce's memory evokes instead of the tears. By presenting Bruce's landmark skits on the Steve Allen Show, his failed TV pilot episode and a candid interview with Nat Hentoff, Bruce's genius and anguish show through the dramatic and tragic trajectory of his career from aspiring artist to hunted "lawbreaker".

Assata aka Joanne Chesimard

Fred Baker

Assata Shakur, Kathleen Cleaver

Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was dubiously convicted for the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison, only to escape two years later and seek refuge in Cuba.

Events

Fred Baker

Joy Bang, Frank Cavestani

Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica."EVENTS is without question, the most far-out sexually experimental film made in the sixties or seventies."--Bruce Williamson, Playboy

Doorway to Suspicion

Dallas Bower

Jeffrey Lynn, Linda Caroll

American band-leader in Germany marries girl working for "The Party". She is kidnapped into Eastern Zone, but in return the band-leader kidnaps the girlfriend of a Russian General.

Room Service 75

Fred Baker

Feature film.