Shawn Baker

"As a filmmaker...in everything I create visually, I attempt to bring a myriad of life experiences to the big and small screen. Through my eyes I allow people to bear witness to and take part in situations they may not ordinarily encounter in their everyday lives", says Brooklyn-born and raised writer/director Shawn Baker. Founder of Lock City Filmworks, Mr. Baker got his start in the business by working as a production assistant for 40 Acres and a Mule Film Works co-founder Monty Ross, as he began working on his student film "For The Good Times". This cool piece introduces Chris Eric Williams (Streets is Watching) as a guy in search of red-light bump and grind parties, hot and steamy sex with beautiful women, and drugs to alleviate distress. This film was distributed domestically through Urban Entertainment and was licensed to BET. While co-producing the Monty Ross directed documentary Morehouse 20 Years Later, he managed to write and direct a gritty urban-drama newly titled Deceptz