Caroline Baron is a Golden Globe winning American film producer and philanthropist. She is best known for producing ''

Mozart in the Jungle ''Mozart in the Jungle'' is an American comedy-drama streaming television series developed by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Alex Timbers, and Paul Weitz for the video-on-demand service Amazon Prime Video. It received a production order in M ...

'' (2014), '' Capote'' (2005) and ''

Monsoon Wedding ''Monsoon Wedding'' is a 2001 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sabrina Dhawan. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah and Vasundhara Das. The story depicts romantic entanglements during a tradi ...

'' (2001). Baron received an Academy Award nomination for producing '' Capote'' (2005) and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Caroline Baron founded

FilmAid International FilmAid is a non-profit humanitarian organization that uses film to educate and entertain displaced people around the world. FilmAid was founded during the Kosovo War in 1999 by producer Caroline Baron ( Capote, Monsoon Wedding ''Monsoon W ...

in 1999, an organization dedicated to helping refugees and other communities around the world through the use of film. Baron is an adjunct professor at NYU's

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in the undergraduate film program.

Film career

Caroline began her career as a production manager for the film '' The Toxic Avenger'' (1984). She was an associate producer on the television series ''

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'' from 1988 to 1989. Her producing work includes ''

The Santa Clause ''The Santa Clause'' is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy comedy film written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick, and directed by John Pasquin. The first installment in ''The Santa Clause'' franchise, it stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, an ordi ...

'' (1994), ''

'' (2001), '' Capote'' (2005), ''

Being Flynn ''Being Flynn'' is a 2012 American drama film written and directed by Paul Weitz and starring Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore and Paul Dano, released in select theatres in the United States on March 2, 2012. It was based on ''Another Bullshit Nigh ...

'' (2012), ''

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'' (2013), ''

A Master Builder ''A Master Builder'' is a 2013 film directed by Jonathan Demme, based on Henrik Ibsen's 1892 play ''The Master Builder''. The film was released in the United States in June 2014 and stars Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Lisa Joyce and Andre Gregory. ...

'' (2013), and the upcoming

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original series ''

''. Baron founded her production company named A-Line Pictures in 2005 with her husband, screenwriter and director, Anthony Weintraub. A-Line was the co-production company for '' Capote'' (2005).

Yummico

Caroline Baron currently supervises production for the children's media company Yummico. She founded the company with creators Anthony Weintraub, Bob Mowen, and

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who is best known for creating the television series ''

Blue's Clues ''Blue's Clues'' is an American live-action/animated children's television series, created by Angela C. Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson, that premiered on Nickelodeon as part of its Nick Jr. block on September 8, 1996, and co ...

''.

FilmAid

After hearing about the 1999

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Caroline Baron founded

. The organization started by assisting

refugee A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

s in Macedonia through the use of educational films and entertainment. “I learned very quickly that we could use the screens for more than entertainment,” Baron stated in a Vanity Fair article, “We could also communicate life-saving education. We were drawing huge crowds, and everyone wanted to see what was being projected.” In 1999 Film Aid partnered with the

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(UNHCR) and other global aid organizations to assist refugees in countries around the world including

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, and

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Personal life

Baron lives in

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with her husband Anthony Weintraub, and her two kids Asher and Emmanuel. Anthony Weintraub is a writer and director best known for writing the animated film adaptation of ''

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'' (2006). Caroline Baron's son Asher is the creator of the Menurkey, a menorah shaped like a turkey for

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Filmography

, 2018 , Film , ''

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'' , Producer , - , , 2019 , TV Series , '' Katy Keene, Pilot'' , Producer , - , 2020 , TV Series , '' Katy Keene, Season One'' , Producer , - , 2020 , TV Series , ''

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'' , Co-Executive Producer

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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A Line PicturesYummicoFilmAid
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