Caroline Baron

Baron began her career as a production manager for the film The Toxic Avenger (1984).{{cite interview|last=Garibay |first=Lisa |interviewer=Lisa Garibay |title=Filmmaker Interviewer: Caroline Baron |url=http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/caroline-baron/ |date=May 6, 2006 |access-date=Nov 11, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112000722/http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/caroline-baron/ |archive-date=2014-11-12 }} She was an associate producer on the television series The Wonder Years from 1988 to 1989.

Her producing work includes The Santa Clause (1994), Monsoon Wedding (2001), Capote (2005), Being Flynn (2012), Admission (2013), A Master Builder (2013), and the Amazon Studios original series Mozart in the Jungle.

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.

Baron currently supervises production for the children's media company Yummico. She founded the company with creators Anthony Weintraub, Bob Mowen, and Traci Paige Johnson who is best known for creating the television series Blue's Clues.{{cite news |last=Mulvey |first=Jeanette |title=Do What You Love: Caorline Baron |url=http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4295-do-what-you-love-caroline-baron.html |work=Business News Daily |date=April 8, 2013 |access-date=Nov 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213035632/http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4295-do-what-you-love-caroline-baron.html |archive-date=December 13, 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last=Wolfe |first=Jennifer |title='Blue's Clues' Co-creator Launches Yummico |url=http://www.awn.com/news/blue-s-clues-co-creator-launches-yummico |work=Animation World network |date=Feb 25, 2013 |access-date=Nov 11, 2014}}

After hearing about the 1999 Kosovo War, Baron founded FilmAid International. The organization started by assisting refugees 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."{{cite magazine |last=Makarechi |first=Kia |date=Nov 4, 2014 |title=More than Movies: FilmAid Seeks to Stimulate Minds and Save Lives |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/11/film-aid-refugee-camp-movies |magazine=Vanity Fair |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=Nov 11, 2014}}

In 1999 Film Aid partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other global aid organizations to assist refugees in countries around the world including Guinea, Kenya, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Haiti.

Baron lives in New York City 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 Tekkonkinkreet (2006). Baron's son Asher is the creator of the Menurkey, a menorah shaped like a turkey for Thanksgivukkah.{{cite news |last=Passy |first=Charles |date=Oct 3, 2013 |title=When Holidays Collide, You Get The 'Menurkey' |url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304176904579112022682954300 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |location=New York, NY |access-date=Nov 11, 2014}}

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• [http://a-linepictures.com A Line Pictures]
• [http://www.yummico.com Yummico]
• [http://www.filmaid.org FilmAid]

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