Biography
Mimi Polk Gitlin is a film producer. She produced Thelma & Louise (1991), directed by Ridley Scott. She later worked with Scott and his brother Tony for thirteen years, overseeing financing and production at their companies and securing overall deals with Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Disney.
Gitlin founded Gaia Entertainment, which develops and produces features and series. Her credits include producing White Squall (1996), Trapped (2002) and the documentary Freak Power (2020), and executive producing The Breadwinner (2017) and Following Harry (2024). She previously served as an executive at Grosvenor Park Media.
Gitlin was born in Ohio and grew up in Minnesota. She graduated from Andover Academy and Middlebury College, where she read Economics with minors in American literature and Film.
