BPS 193: The RAW Reality of Being an Indie Producer with Miranda Bailey

Miranda Bailey is a prolific producer, actor and director, known
for producing high quality independent films. Her passion for
bringing compelling, well-crafted stories to the screen has been
the driving force in her distinguished 15-year filmmaking career.
Bailey has produced over 20 films, among them the Oscar-nominated
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE and the Spirit Award-winning THE DIARY OF A
TEENAGE GIRL, as well as James Gunn’s SUPER, the Sundance hit SWISS
ARMY MAN, the critically acclaimed NORMAN and the indie hit DON’T
THINK TWICE.

Bailey’s directorial narrative feature debut BEING FRANK, an
offbeat family drama/comedy premiered in the Spotlight Section at
the 2018 SXSW Film Festival and was theatrically released June
2019. She assembled a decorated cast including Grammy-nominated
comedian, actor, writer, producer and New York Times best-selling
author Jim Gaffigan, two-time Emmy winning actress Anna Gunn,
Samantha Mathis and Logan Miller.  Karen Kehela Sherwood of
Imagine Entertainment produced the film alongside Amanda Marshall
of Bailey’s Cold Iron Pictures. Bailey’s made her documentary debut
GREENLIT – a humorous documentary examining the hypocrisy inherent
in Hollywood’s “green” movement – premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film
Festival to critical acclaim and was acquired by IFC International.
Bailey’s second documentary, THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST, the film
was released theatrically by The Film Arcade and on VOD by
Gravitas.

In 2018, Bailey teamed with Gurl.com co-founder Rebecca Odes to
launch CherryPicks, a groundbreaking aggregate movie review and
rating service by female critics for the female audience. The site
went live in 2019 and over 800 female critics are subscribed to
provide their reviews on the site.

A production powerhouse, Bailey’s Cold Iron Pictures has amassed an
extensive list of critical and commercial successes, including
SWISS ARMY MAN, starring Golden Globe-nominee Paul Dano and Daniel
Radcliffe, theatrically released by A24.  DON’T THINK TWICE,
directed by Mike Birbiglia, starring Gillian Jacobs and produced
with Ira Glass (This American Life) was distributed by The Film
Arcade. NORMAN, directed by Joseph Cedar (BEAUFORD, a Foreign
Language Film Oscar nominee), premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival and was released by Sony Classics.
Bailey also produced I DO…UNTIL I DON’T, directed by and starring
Lake Bell and Ed Helms.  Additionally, in 2019, she produced
the Sundance hit documentary, THE UNTITLED AMAZING.

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