Damani Baker’s over 20-year directing career includes work that spans museum exhibits, feature documentaries, music videos and advertising. Most recently in his critically acclaimed feature, The House on Coco Road (acquired by Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY RELEASING), Baker combines family super-8 with, archival news, and family interviews to weave his mother’s personal story with broader historical threads to tell a story of migration and the Grenada Revolution. The House On Coco Road and his first feature, Still Bill, on the life and music of the legendary Bill Withers, have been critically acclaimed and have enjoyed worldwide distribution on Showtime, Netflix, and BBC.

With Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Damani has directed over 20 films for museums around the world featuring such notables as President Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, all stories rooted in understanding the human story and its connection to place. Damani has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and Time Out among others. Baker is also a tenured professor at Sarah Lawrence College where he teaches filmmaking to a diverse group of creatives, ensuring the stories from all communities continue to be told with grace, dignity, and power.