Prano Bailey-Bond

Prano Bailey-Bond is a London based filmmaker, originally from Wales, whose body of work invokes imaginative worlds, fusing a dark vocabulary with eerie allure. Her feature-length debut, CENSOR (2021), starring Niamh Algar and backed by Film4, the BFI and Ffilm Cymru Wales, opened the Midnight section at Sundance Film Festival 2021, followed by its European premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. CENSOR received 9 BIFA nominations, winning the European Federation of Fantastic Films’ grand prize; the Méliès d’Or at Sitges Film Festival, and was voted by critics as one of the best British films of the 21st Century. Prano received a nomination for Breakthrough Filmmaker at the London Critics Awards 2021, as well as the Big Screen Awards 2022, and won the Screen Genre Rising Star Award 2021. She has been named a ‘Director to Watch’ by Variety, a BAFTA Breakthrough, a Screen International ‘Star of Tomorrow’ and was one of the Observer New Review ‘Faces of the Year 2022’. 

Prano is currently working on an adaptation of Booker Prize nominee Mariana Enriquez’ short story, THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE, produced by Rodrigo Teixeira. She is developing feature films with Element Pictures, Film4 and Ffilm Cymru Wales. Prano is represented as a writer-director by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, and in the USA by United Talent Agency. 

Headshot by Mark Chapman