Prano Bailey-Bond

Prano Bailey-Bond is a London-based filmmaker, originally from Wales, known for crafting imaginative worlds that fuse eerie allure with a dark cinematic vocabulary. Her acclaimed shorts and music videos have screened at festivals worldwide, earning critical recognition and garnering her place among Screen International’s ‘Stars of Tomorrow’.

Prano’s debut feature, CENSOR (2021), backed by the BFI, Film4 and Ffilm Cymru Wales, premiered at Sundance Film Festival before making its European debut at the Berlinale. CENSOR earned Prano critical acclaim, earning her a BAFTA Breakthrough recognition, and a Variety ‘Director to Watch’ title. She won Screen International’s ‘Genre Rising Star Award’, was nominated for Breakthrough British Filmmaker at the London’s Critic’s Circle, and named one of the Observer’s ‘Faces of 2021’. CENSOR had its own cover feature in Sight & Sound, was BAFTA longlisted, and received nine BIFA nominations, as well as winning the Méliès d’Or at Sitges. It has been hailed by critics as one of the best British films of the 21^st Century—cementing Prano’s reputation as a bold new voice in cinema.

An alumnus of the Berlin Talent Campus and BFI NETWORK@LFF —initiatives that champion originality, iconoclasm and risk-taking — Prano is currently developing projects with Film4, Element Pictures, Anonymous Content, RT Features, Number 9 Films, and more. She is represented by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, and in the US by United Talent Agency.