Leah Chen Baker is an Independent Spirit Award-nominated producer and filmmaker. She produced Jamie Dack’s feature debut, Palm Trees and Power Lines, which premiered at Sundance 2022 and won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. Leah was selected as a 2022 Sundance Institute Producing Fellow, a Mark Silverman Honoree and a Sundance Institute Catalyst Fellow. Her work has been recognised by the DGA and Women in Film, and won Academy-qualifying awards and has been acquired by HBO, Focus Features and eOne. She earned her MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film Program and is a Media Services Producing Award recipient and a member of the Producers Guild of America.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
