John Baynard
Producer
John Baynard has worked as a documentary filmmaker for 30 years. He has been cameraman on a wide range of documentaries, including Murder on the Rio San Juan (Frontline), Don King Unauthorized (Frontline), My Mother’s Murder (HBO), and Sister Aimee (American Experience). He has produced documentaries and magazine stories for the WGBH arts magazine program, Arts Closeup, ABC News’ Nightline, and PBS. He has recently produced short stories for the Refugees International website about the refugee situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
John worked as the director, co-producer, and cinematographer on the Frontline documentary Secret Daughter, which received a national Emmy. Other awards he has received include two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, two Chicago International Film Festival awards, 21 New England Emmys, and five Boston Press TV Photographer of the Year awards.
In the past year, John has shot documentaries about one woman’s inspiring leadership in the movement against genocide in Sudan, the environmentalism and religion movement, and the struggle of a family in New Orleans to rebuild their lives after Katrina.