Ronald Baez is an Afro-Caribbean filmmaker, immersive media artist and public arts programmer from Miami, FL. His films and XR projects continue to screen and exhibit at film festivals and museums worldwide including the Tribeca Film Festival, the Slamdance Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, the Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Sheffield DocFest and the New Orleans, Florida, Miami, Trinidad & Tobago and Short Shorts (Tokyo) Film Festivals. His various works have also been exhibited and distributed by PBS Television, Seed & Spark, the Norton Museum of Art, the New World Symphony and the Adrienne Arsht Center.

His immersive projects have been exhibited at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Games for Change Festival, the Florida Museum of Natural History, and the National Association of Broadcasters Conference Las Vegas. Baez continues to work with organizations and institutions like Oculus (Meta), Snapchat, National Geographic, the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation and the Knight Foundation on a variety of projects.

In his capacity as an arts and culture programmer, Baez is a founding member and the current Arts Programs Director of the White Elephant Group (WEG), a Miami-based film and digital media collective elevating South Florida stories and storytellers. He also served as the Captain of Programming for the inaugural 2021 Slamdance Miami Film Festival, and served as the founding Artistic Director of the After School Film Institute, a nonprofit organization mentoring students and emerging artists from underserved South Florida communities.