Mimi Polk Gitlin
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Executive
Mimi Polk Gitlin has over 30 years of experience as a Producer, and as a Film/TV Production and Finance Executive. Gitlin produced one of the most talked about films of its decade, Thelma and Louise, which was nominated for 5 Academy Awards and 5 Golden Globes and which won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. In 2018 Gaia's The Breadwinner was nominated for an Academy Award and went on to win 19 prestigious awards around the world. Gitlin founded Gaia Entertainment which develops and produces high-caliber scripted and non-scripted series and features. Recently Gitlin produced the documentary Freak Power, The Ballot or The Bomb on Hunter Thompson's run for Sheriff in 1970 and Executive Produced the documentary, From Hell To Hollywood on Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nick Ut.
Gaia has a number of scripted features and series in development including In Amber's Wake with Christine Leunens (Jojo Rabbit) and Enemy of the People with Andy Black (Narcos). Prior to Gaia, Gitlin served for three years as an Executive at Grosvenor Park Media working on films that include PS I Love You, Penelope, Miss Potter and Hurtlocker. Prior to Grosvenor Park, Gitlin was partnered for thirteen years with acclaimed directors Ridley and Tony Scott overseeing the companies financing, and film and television production. Mimi was born in Ohio and grew up in Minnesota. After attending a public high school in Minnesota she went on to graduate from Andover Academy and then on to Middlebury College for her BA in Economics with a minor in American literature and a concentration in Film.