Sean Baker
8 titles · american independent
Life at the economic edge, filmed with energy rather than pity. Baker casts non-professionals and works in motels, strip malls and parking lots, finding comedy and warmth in precarity without softening what precarity costs.
Signature
- Non-professional casting from the communities depicted.
- Saturated, kinetic photography — sometimes iPhone — in unglamorous locations.
- Sex work shown as work, without moralising.
- Abrupt endings that puncture the good mood.
The Florida Project
Tangerine
Red Rocket
Starlet
Take Out
Prince of Broadway
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