An award winning writer and filmmaker, Elizabeth Gaylynn Baker worked on eleven independent films in Los Angeles before writing and directing her first documentary, "When Buffalo Roam." The film won Best Social Documentary Short of 1999 at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival's.

Elizabeth’s next documentary, this time the feature length, "The Trail of Painted Ponies," narrated by  Ali MacGraw and judged by Sony Classics in New York,  won Best Documentary at the White Sands Film Festival of 2005 while Baker won Best Woman Director.  The film then aired in New York on PBS, and was included in a week long exhibition of New Mexico Best Independent Films in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 2002, Baker worked closely with New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson recruiting Shirley MacLaine, Val Kilmer, Marsha Mason and members of the New Mexico House and Senate, to pass ground breaking film legislation. It was the beginning of New Mexico’s vital film industry.