Steve Baum Productions is a state of the art television and business communications company. The
company was founded by award-winning producer, director and cinematographer Steve Baum. SBP's videos,
footage has been broadcast on all major networks including NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS, and many cable
channels Discovery, National Geographic, Discovery Times, Court TV, A&E, Bravo, TLC.  As well, SBP
has created corporate videos, new media for many Fortune 500 companies.

Steve Baum Productions is a full service professional film, video and new media production
company. In addition to providing turnkey productions, we also provide on-location production
services across the country and around the world. Send us an email for more detailed
information and pricing.

A recent focus has been the creation of the Not For kids Only series. It is
a family musical video series dedicated to the production of real world, nurturing
programming for children and adults alike.  It celebrates the variety of life and
hopes to excite viewers, help them to explore their individual worlds.
The first video in the series is "Underwater Suite", which delights in
the beauty and motion of the undersea world.  For more
information: www.notforkidsonly.com  

Our most recent focus is a documentary, Salvadorian
Salvation, a 2 part series for Al Jazeera English.
 
 

Salvadorian Salvation, 2 Part Program
A Steve Baum Production for Al Jazeera English 24/7 Channel
People and Power Series

Barefoot Angels is a NGO headquartered in Santa Ana, El Salvador. It’s mission is to shield kids, 3 to 18, from ever increasing gang pressures . This program is an examination of the struggle currently being played out between the organization and the gangs, MS 13 and the 18th Street gang. Literally it is a war fought over the lives of the children. All are at risk.
 

 Salvadorian Salvation Part 1  |  Salvadorian Salvation Part 2

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People & Power - Salvadorian Salvation
Part 1

People & Power - Salvadorian Salvation
Part 2

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Magicians Without Borders: A profile of Tom Verner

A Steve Baum Production for Hallmark Channel, New Morning Series

 

 
 

STEVE BAUM / STEVE BAUM PRODUCTIONS
Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor

Steve Baum, a native New Orleanian, first honed his film skills at New York University with a Master of Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts. Most recently he has been shooting programs on pressing social issues, such as decoding US infrastructure disasters (Discovery), privacy and terrorism in the US (ABC News Productions), DNA exonerations (Innocence Project . . . Discovery Times), the carbon sequestration frontier (Nova Science), learning matters (Lehrer News Hour) and credit card, banking abuses, (Frontline).

His production company is credited with helping countless newly diagnosed cancer patients through his multi-part documentary series “Cancer: Who are You Now?” which dealt with the early unsettled time after cancer patients learn of their diagnosis. “Genetic Dilemmas” a NIH funded documentary, website, and CME program, co-produced with the Hastings Center wrestles with the ethical issues derived out of the new medical paradigm. SBP’s 2008 production is Salvadorian Salvation. It is an examination of the life and death struggle currently being played out in El Salvador. Barefoot Angels is a social activist NGO headquartered in Santa Ana. Its mission is to shield children from ever increasing gang pressures. All are at risk.

An ongoing focus has been the creation of the Not For kids Only series. It is a family musical video series dedicated to the production of real world, nurturing programming for children and adults alike. The first video in the series is "Underwater Suite", which delights in the beauty and motion of the undersea world

Currently in post-production is Steve’s independent documentary project "The Day of the Dead". It is a deep gaze into a Mexican landscape filled with art, spirits, memory and the basic questions of living, and death. Eight award-winning crews simultaneously documented the holiday in eight Mexican states.

A multi-camera live video production which Baum directed of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Japanese NOH dramas was so “insightful of the Japanese esthetic” that it was selected as one of only two gifts presented to Emperor Akihito when he visited New York City.