Cindy Baer
Cindy Baer is an American actress, director, producer, and entrepreneur.[1] She helms the production company Free Dream Pictures, located in Burbank, California.[2]
She directed and produced the critically acclaimed feature films Purgatory House and Odd Brodsky. She attends filmmaking panels across the country, speaking as an expert on low budget filmmaking.[3] Baer resides in Los Angeles, California with her cinematographer husband Matthew Irving.
Cindy Baer
Career
Cindy Baer is an award-winning film and stage actress, director, and producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. She specializes in independent and often female-centric films. (Film Radar)
Baer made her feature debut as both a director and producer with the ground-breaking, micro-budget independent feature film Purgatory House (film) which was written by Celeste Davis, a 14-year-old girl Baer had been mentoring in the Big Sisters of Los Angeles program for several years prior. The movie went on to win a dozen awards, two PRISM Award nominations, critical acclaim and distribution by Image Entertainment, one of the largest distributors in North America.[4] Baer's second feature "Odd Brodsky" was released in November of 2016 after having similar success. It was screened in 29 film festivals and the recipient of 20 awards. [5]
In addition to her stage and film work, she is a self-made entrepreneur who has founded four companies, including the two non-profit organizations The Mosiac Theatre company in 2000 and Patron of the Arts in 2009. She founded the production company Free Dream Pictures in 2001, and the successful children's entertainment company Daizy the Clown & Company at the young age of 22, which she later sold.[6][7]
Baer started her career as an actress at the age of 14 at the Boston Children’s Theatre and went on to perform in over two dozen plays. She starred in and produced the 30th Anniversary production of the stage play Butterflies Are Free, which was written by Leonard Gershe, at the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood, California (PRLOG). She often appears on filmmaking panels at filmmaker organizations and film festivals all over North American speaking about low budget filmmaking.[8][9]