Jeff Baron

Managing Partner

Loveboat LA

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Jeff Baron is co-founder and managing partner of Loveboat.

Loveboat is a creative content production company with offices in Los Angeles and Paris and a diverse collective of directors and multidisciplinary artists, including co-founder and director Nicolas Winding Refn.

Loveboat is the latest chapter of Baron’s illustrious career, one defined by a commitment to mentorship and director development. Previously Managing Director of Stink Films in the US, and Senior Executive Producer of Anonymous Content before that, Baron’s history of leading progressive cultures of platform agnostic creative thinkers and storytellers is well documented. Nicolas Winding Refn, Eliot Rausch, Arthur Jafa, David Fincher, Salomon Ligthelm, Traktor, Frank Budgen, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu are all among the remarkable talents he has worked with over the years.

Jeff Baron
I was born in….
Johannesburg, South Africa

I now live in…
Los Angeles

But if I could live anywhere, it would be…
on a ranch in Wyoming

Right now, I’m binge-watching…
Peaky Blinders

The last track I listened to was…
”Novacane” Frank Ocean

I dream about…
Nothing. I can’t remember my dreams.

The app I couldn’t survive without is…
Bleacher Report

When we can travel again, I’ll be heading to…
that ranch in Wyoming

What the film industry needs is…
more westerns.

The film I wish I’d made…
Dr. No

My biggest inspiration is…
the incredible woman who fired me 20 years ago.

The person I would canonise is…
Nelson Mandela

My last meal would be…
my mother’s chocolate mousse.