---
name: "Mimi Polk Gitlin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mimi-polk-gitlin"
fi1m_id: "mimi-polk-gitlin"
imdb_id: "nm0689316"
tmdb_id: 17398
wikidata_id: "Q3314608"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T21:47:34.293976+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mimi Polk Gitlin

## Identity

Mimi Polk Gitlin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mimi-polk-gitlin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mimi-polk-gitlin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0689316
- **TMDB ID:** 17398
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3314608
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314608, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689316/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17398

Producer. Born in Ohio.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1991–2017
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314608, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689316/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17398

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Thelma & Louise*](https://film.one/film/thelma-and-louise.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, allmovie.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Breadwinner* (2017), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner-2017.md)
- *Thelma & Louise* (1991), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/thelma-and-louise.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb* (2020), Producer
- *The Breadwinner* (2017), Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner-2017.md)
- *Dare to Be Wild* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Trapped* (2002), Producer
- *Picking Up the Pieces* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Clubland* (1999), Producer
- *White Squall* (1996), Producer
- *The Browning Version* (1994), Producer
- *Monkey Trouble* (1994), Producer
- *1492: Conquest of Paradise* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Thelma & Louise* (1991), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/thelma-and-louise.md)
- *Someone to Watch Over Me* (1987), Associate Producer

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