David Baxter
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About
David Baxter received his degree in psychology from the University of Michigan and worked in corporate marketing before beginning his entertainment career as assistant to documentary director, Errol Morris. After moving from New York to Los Angeles, Baxter held several development positions and earned his master’s degree from UCLA’s Producer Program. While attending, he produced his first feature film, a romantic comedy called Shooting Lily that won the 1996 SXSW Film Festival. Baxter became a member of the WGA after selling Nuvolari, an epic racing car script, to 20th Century Fox. He is co-producer and co-story writer of Face Value, the 2004 Sloan grant winning screenplay about the life of actress/inventor Hedy Lamarr. Most recently Baxter formed Nimbus Pictures with entertainment publicist Lisa Taback with a mission to produce thought-provoking entertainment for the 21st century. Baxter is represented by the William Morris Agency.
David Baxter won the Script Development award at The Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 for The Broken Code
Face Value
Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914 Vienna, was a Hollywood star – “the most beautiful girl in the world”, according to Ed Sullivan – the first woman to appear fully nude in a legitimate motion picture, the Czech film Ecstasy, and the inventor of a device that allowed frequency hopping. This visionary concept would supply the U.S. Army with the secure remote-control guidance system for torpedoes, and become the forerunner to all wireless communication today.
Broken Code
Rosalind Franklin was one of the four scientists whose work was most responsible when the key to heredity, the molecular structure of DNA, was discovered. She died not long after at the age of 37. When the Nobel Prizes were given out and the book The Double Helix was written by Nobel Laureate James Watson, Rosalind Franklin's work was minimized and her character distorted in the public eye. One woman, Anne Sayre, a friend of Franklin, conducts an investigation to find out the true contribution she made to science and restores not only Franklin's glory as a scientist but her warmth and fascination as a person.