Sam Baron
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Sam Baron, June 8, 1988 , is a semi-professional British director, with one feature film, two documentaries and over 100 short films to his credit, all under the banner of his indie film company, Illimms Productions. His father is Simon Baron-Cohen, and he is a cousin once removed of Sacha and Erran Baron Cohen.
Baron, who was born in London, has dabbled in a number of different media, and even within his film-making he has experimented with everything from live action to CGI to various forms of animation. His first feature film, Can You Survive a Week in Paradise?, was screened at the Cambridge Arts Picture House in 2004. In December of that year, his documentary Family Rights Group was screened at The Barbican Cinema in London.
In March 2006 he co-wrote and starred in a UK response to the Saturday Night Live rap video "Lazy Sunday" which became successful on the internet.[1] His UK response to the "Saturday Night Live" (1975) rap video "Lazy Sunday" was downloaded over 50,000 times in the first month it was online. It received praise from SNL writer Jorma Taccone and "Lazy Monday" creators Mark Feuerstein and Sam Friedlander, and a clip from the video was featured on CNN.
He is currently in pre-production for a number of different projects, many with long-time collaborator Raphael von Blumenthal. He currently runs a website where all his short films are available to download.[2]
He was featured very briefly in the documentary They Made Me Do It Too: The Cult of Donnie Darko on the Director's Cut DVD of the film Donnie Darko (2001).
