THE TEAM
JONATHAN BAKER
Director / Founder
Jonathan Baker has always been enthralled by smart storytelling and larger-than-life figures, taking inspiration from greats like Ernest Hemingway to guide his own sensibilities as a writer, producer, director and adventurer. Studying film in his native New York City and at USC in his undergraduate years, Jonathan Baker began his entertainment career as a writer, director and producer on “Through Scavullo’s Eyes”, a Warner Bros. documentary on controversial fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo; as well as a wildly successful “Dorf on Golf”, a sports spoof with Tim Conway; and “Dirty Tennis”, a comedy starring Dick Van Patten, Nicolette Sheridan and then Bruce Jenner that aired on HBO and Cinemax. It won the VSDA and the New York Film Festival Award for Best Comedy Video of the Year. More recently, he founded Baker Entertainment Group, a multimedia development and production company.
Baker is also a successful entrepreneur who grew a start-up venture, SkinSpa, into the leading full-service day spa in the U.S. before selling that brand in 2011.
While focusing on Baker Entertainment Group and his evolving work as a film director, he remains active in the personal care field and has currently developed a new signature brand, JONATHAN BAKER EST 1962, which introduces its first line of many pure aromatherapy products.
Daniel Herther - President
Daniel Herther is a feature film executive formerly at Relativity Studios, where he helped supervise the studio’s slate of projects from development through post-‐production and release.
At Relativity, Herther served as the on-‐set executive for D.J. Caruso’s The Disappointments Room, starring Kate Beckinsale, helping guide it from early development through post. He helped oversee development of the espionage thriller Hunter Killer and set up and developed both director Ric Waugh’s sci-‐fi thriller Tipping Point and Wentworth Miller’s adaptation of the female driven serial killer novel, Scare Me. Other projects Herther set up include Damsel: The Untold Story of Rapunzel and Smoke, an early 80’s drug trafficking/speedboat racing thriller, based on true events, as well as Replay, a quantum-‐physics experiment thriller, with David Twohy attached to direct. Herther also served as the creative liaison between Relativity and SilverDream, one of its Chinese partners. Currently, Herther serves as the President of BEG, a Paramount Pictures based film and TV production company headed by financier, producer and filmmaker Jonathan Baker.
Before joining Relativity, Herther worked in the story department at DreamWorks and held positions at Paramount Pictures/Scott Rudin Productions and 20th Century Fox. Herther earned his BA in Comparative Literature and his MA in English Literature at Loyola Marymount’s Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. He recently served on LMU’s School of Film and Television’s 2015 Film Outside the Frame Awards and Festival Jury where he judged scripts and shorts submitted by students.
KEVIN KOLOFF
Business Affairs
Kevin Koloff has over 25 years of experience representing clients in all aspects of the film, music and television industries. His clients cross the spectrum from individuals to major studios.
Prior to opening his current practice, Kevin’s experience includes stints at big law firms (Loeb and Loeb, Mitchell, Silberburg and Knupp), independent film companies, and twelve years as a Senior Vice President at Paramount Pictures. He regularly guest lectures at schools such as UCLA, Loyola Law School and the University of Southern California School of Music. He is a frequent panelist at film and music industry symposia.
Kevin received his B.A., magna cum laude, in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was honored as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
JULIA SHOONER
Project Manger
