Biography
Derek Baum is an experienced television and commercial producer and director with a passion for storytelling. He began his career producing and directing over 500 paid-programming adverts (domestically and internationally produced), winning two Telly Awards for his critically acclaimed commercials. Along the way, his clients included Chase Blueprint, Domino's Pizza, and Jiffy Lube among others. While continuing to create award winning commercials, he created and produced the docu-series, Hoops Academy, which documented the high stakes drama of high school basketball in the states while following Montrose Christian School during their championship
season of 2011. The series aired in prime-time nationally on Fox Sports in Spring 2011 and was praised by many critics as the best basketball documentary since Hoop Dreams. Further, he directed the pilots for Champagne Travel on a White Wine Budget (Venture Channel) and TK's World (Sobe Films.) Additionally, Derek served as producer on the hit series Swamp Wars (Discovery) and numerous other music videos, live events, and web based original content. Overall, Derek's productions have been seen on WE, Travel Channel, ION, Oxygen, Fox Sports, Venture Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel.
Most recently, Derek has served as an international production consultant, providing analysis and original content proposals to a Nigerian Television Station to fit the changing market demographics. Derek is known for cross-cutting production with a firm grasp of the latest in television and commercial trends. In fact, a recent music video he directed will be debuting on MTV Base in early summer 2014. All of Derek's cross genre work has allowed him to have a great understanding of what audiences are looking for, whether that's from a TV show or commercial, domestic or internationally. Finally, at heart, Derek is a born storyteller whose productions not only deliver his clients' message in an entertaining, fast paced manner, but also knows how to mold and shape that message from concept to delivery, using only the most cutting edge production techniques.
