Maiken Baird
Maiken Baird is a documentary filmmaker whose work boldly confronts established truths and global systems of power — yielding complicated portraits and access to unseen worlds.
Her debut feature “Venus and Serena” about the legendary Williams sisters — premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures and on Netflix. More recently, she directed and produced “Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich” with RadicalMedia for Netflix. Baird was an Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning film “Icarus” and is a frequent collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, first producing “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” in 2010; later collaborations include “Totally Under Control”, “Divide and Conquer: The Rise and Fall of Roger Ailes”, and BAFTA-nominated “City of Ghosts”. Recent Executive Producer roles also include Matthew Heineman’s “The First Wave”; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s “The Grab”; and “Tantura”, which opened Sundance 2022.
Baird began her career at ABC News as a researcher for Peter Jennings. She has lived and worked around the world, speaks four languages, and previously held roles at the United Nations in New York, the European Commission in Brussels and the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. She has a Master’s degree in International Relations and Political Science from Stanford University and a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University.