Featured Filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond - WiHM
Women In Horror Month 2016
We’re asking our favorite Horror Icons three specific questions:
Why Film? What’s been their favorite project to-date? And what we’ll be looking forward to next…
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- Prano Bailey-Bond
When a filmmaker comes highly recommended by somebody like Melanie Light, you at LEAST type the name into the nearest search engine. In our case, that name was Prano Bailey-Bond.
A few chats and a brilliant 15 minutes of Nasty later (reviewed HERE), all at The Slaughtered Bird are hooked on her for life.
Accolades for Nasty:
Winner - Best Picture & Best Director - Maverick Movie Awards 2015
Winner - Best Director - North Wales International Film Festival 2016
Highly Commended - Best Producer - UnderWire Festival 2015
Nominated - Best Woman Director - London Short Film Festival 2016
Nominated - Jury Award Best Film - British Shorts Film Festival Berlin 2016
Nominated - Deadline Award - Landshut Kurz Film Festival 2016 (TBA)
Official Selection: BFI London Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival,
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK Film Festival, Bogota Short Film
Festival, Lund Fantastic Film Festival, Mecal, Barcelona International Short & Animation Film Festival
Luckily, Prano kindly spared us some of her precious time for our Women In Horror Month feature…
SB: Why film?
PB-B: For me, film is the art form that most resembles our dreams and nightmares, and that is a very interesting place to play. It’s the only art form that’s ever made me come away feeling like I’m on a different planet. Like when a film lingers with you after you’ve seen it - for days or even weeks. As a teenager I was obsessed with drawing and concepts and composition and painting. I was also really interested in acting and telling stories. When I started making films it felt like a way to fuse these interests. I really love the craft of filmmaking: shaping the story, sound, image, point of view, performance, creating meaning and an experience for an audience. For me it’s pretty much an obsession.
“Film is the art form that most resembles our dreams and nightmares, and that is a very interesting place to play.”
SB: Your favorite project to-date?
PB-B: Argh - that’s a really difficult question - like choosing between your best friends! You like them all for different reasons… But I guess if I had to pick then I would say my latest short Nasty. I think it’s the film I’m most proud of. We shot on film and it looks beautiful - it’s a film I’ve been working on for a long time. It was really fun to be able to re-create and play with the 80’s vibes too. But then I also have a very special place in my heart for my first 2 music videos House, which got me a lot of recognition and Poltergeist, which is literally the most ‘me’ of all my work as I played all the characters myself - I see that video as a kind of projectile vomit of my mind onto the screen. It’s quite lo-fi and homemade compared to a lot of my other work, but sometimes making stuff like that is where you really get to play with ideas - because there’s less risk or pressure. I think it’s important to keep doing these kind of projects once you start working professionally. I think I just cheated - that’s not one favourite is it?
SB: What’s next on the horizon?
PB-B: Writing a feature in connection to but not the same as Nasty. I’m also about to shoot a music video for a really cool band called Autoheart, which is about a Drag King. And I’m planning another music video for a brilliant band called Hot Dog Grrrl & the Sesame Buns - that one’s about a really lame night out. I have loads of fun little ideas I want to play around with too - there’s just not enough time for all the ideas.
Official Website - www.pranobaileybond.com
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Read our Nasty review HERE!
Featured Interviews:
(Check back here often – we’ll be adding links to our featured Horror pioneers throughout the month.)
Nadine L’Esperance Melanie Light Tristan Risk Joanne Mitchell
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