Amy Baer's career in the entertainment industry uniquely spans major studios, independent financiers, and producing. Collectively, the films she has supervised and/or produced have grossed over $2 billion worldwide. 

Baer’s most recent endeavor is a label with MRC Films (BABY DRIVER, KNIVES OUT) to produce feature film content for a 50+ audience. Launched in February 2020, it will generate 2-4 films per year, starting in 2021, for both theatrical and streaming distribution.  

Additionally, Baer recently executive produced her first television show – the CW variety special “Women in Film Presents: Make it Work!” which featured musical and comedy acts, celebrity testimonials and insightful conversations regarding industry women returning to work.  Make It Work was part of WIF’s Hire Her Back campaign, which seeks to provide grants to women in the screen industries whose livelihoods have been jeopardized by the ongoing COVID pandemic. and also urges diversification in rehiring as Hollywood inches its way to re-opening after the COVID-19 shutdown.

In 2012, Baer raised a 7-figure development fund and launched Gidden Media, one of the industry’s only female-led, independently financed content incubation companies. Her first film as a producer was the 2013 hit LAST VEGAS (starring Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline) which grossed $136MM worldwide. She has also produced the romantic drama MARY SHELLEY, starring Elle Fanning (THE GREAT) and directed by Haifaa Al Mansour (WADJDA), which had its World Premiere at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, and the inspirational true story BRIAN BANKS, which premiered at the 2018 LA FILM FESTIVAL and won the LAFF Audience Award. 

Before starting her own company, Baer served as President & 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 1997’s MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING, Oscar nominated ADAPTATION (2001), S.W.A.T. (2002), SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE (2003), and the 2006 holiday hit THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, which earned Will Smith an Oscar nomination. She also developed the 2011 Oscar-nominated Sony hit MONEYBALL, 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 faced 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 B.A. in English literature. She is married to producer Matt Baer (UNBROKEN) and has two sons.