Producer Miranda Bailey spent two decades becoming an independent film industry powerhouse. Her production company, Cold Iron Pictures, has steadily built an impressive catalog—recent successes include 2015 Sundance sensation Diary of a Teenage Girl and Mike Birbiglia’s 2016 feature Don’t Think Twice. Bailey has switched from producer to director with Being Frank, which stars Jim Gaffigan and debuted at SXSW. Bailey began at the bottom with a crash course in industry culture. Her first acting job came in indie film where she needed to do a sex scene. But, her character also opened the film with some dialogue over a few scenes and appeared to be a plum first gig. On the day of the shoot, Bailey was given no costume, only a robe, and the set wasn’t closed—something she had negotiated before the shoot. Quickly, Bailey, who had never been on a movie set until this day, felt the situation pulled out of her control... READ MORE
Miranda Bailey talks about her two SXSW films.
Miranda Bailey talks about her two SXSW films.
With a bountiful harvest coming due in this first quarter of 2022, Bailey’s Cold Iron Pictures used what potential down time they had to strengthen an already strong slate of projects, particularly with “Split at the Root,” Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s galvanizing look at the creation of Immigrant Families Together, an organization of American women moved to action by the past administration’s dehumanizing child separation policy at the border and their development of a support system in the U.S. that can reconnect immigrants with their families. Bailey also lent a helpful eye as an executive producer to “The Unknown Country,” Morissa Maltz’s bewitching travelogue about a woman (Lily Gladstone) haunted by loss and gradually reopens herself to the world as she meets people along the way.
On not being afraid to pursue your ideas
Filmmaker Miranda Bailey on deciding to do more than one thing, learning to trust her voice, embracing fear, making real change, and why she's always happy to help other women in the industry.
Prolific producer, director, actor and distributor, Miranda Bailey is known for creating high-quality independent films through her companies Cold Iron Pictures and The Film Arcade. In a 15 year making career, Bailey has distinguished herself by producing over 20 films; among them, the Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, the Spirit-Award winning Diary of a Teenage Girl, James Gunn’s Super, the Sundance hit Swiss Army Man, as well as the critically acclaimed, Don’t Think Twice and Norman. As a director, her first narrative feature *Being Frank, *starring Jim Gaffigan and Logan Miller premiered at SXSW in 2018 and was released in June 2019.
Miranda Bailey Wants to be a Force for Good in the Independent Film Community
This Filmmaker and Entrepreneur Wants to Transform Hollywood.
Multi-hyphenate Miranda Bailey acts, directs, produces and wants to create space for more women to tell their stories.
Producer-actor-director Miranda Bailey wants to be a force for good in the independent film community, helping stories that otherwise might not get told find their way on to the big screen.
Toward that goal, Bailey over the last 15 years has produced 20 films, including The Squid and the Whale, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Swiss Army Man and Don’t Think Twice. She is also the founder of three business
Exclusive Being Frank Trailer With Jim Gaffigan!
It’s 1992, the year Grunge music becomes mainstream hitting middle American teenagers directly in their angst. Phillip longs to leave his small town for music school in The Big Apple. His dreams are dashed when his overbearing father, Frank, played by Jim Gaffigan, forbids it. In retaliation to his father’s dictatorial parenting, he sneaks away for a wild spring break. However, when he crosses state lines he instead finds a charming lake community where he spots his father with another woman. Turns out, his father lives in this town and has an entire other family. With this new heartbreaking information Philip realizes he can wallow in his father’s deceit or take matters into his own hands.
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is on the verge of pulling off a neat trick: a deal sources place around $2 million for 'The Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary'. The Ben Berman-directed film premiered last Friday at The MARC, competing in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
It begins as a documentary about “The Amazing Johnathan,” a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s—but becomes a bizarre story about the unravelling of his documentarian.
"Holy shit, I don’t even know where to begin with this one, except to say that I love it. Stick with me because this is going to sound a little confusing."
Indie films can still succeed in theaters, but producers and directors must be more creative in selling their films and cooking up stories that will resonate with audiences.
RCRs @KristynBurtt talks to www.thecherrypicks.com’s @mirandaBailey at #LAFCA2019 #WeAskMore #AwardSeason
Ben Berman attempts to document the life of a terminally-ill magician.
Berman’s background in comedy is welcomely felt in this unorthodox project, produced by Miranda Bailey, which upends expectations in outrageous ways for both the viewer and the filmmaker alike.
In its 15th year, festival honors independent films and filmmakers with screenings, parties and awards
GO! interviewed filmmaker Miranda Bailey via email about “You Can Choose Your Family,” her first outing as director of a narrative feature. The comedy film stars Jim Gaffigan as Frank, a family man whose long-running secret — the fact that he has a second family in another city — is on the verge of being exposed.
Miranda Bailey's unique approach of using the festival route as a workshopping process
An interview with "You Can Choose Your Family" Director and Producer Miranda Bailey, where she discusses her unique process at film festivals and what it's like to direct Jim Gaffigan.
On the creative choices that will keep audiences on their toes with this comedy about a patriarch juggling two separate families.
Miranda Bailey wanted to make a big splash with her narrative feature debut “You Can Choose Your Family,” but getting there wasn’t always easy, in some cases more literally than others.
"You Can Choose Your Family" premieres at the Los Angeles Film Festival tonight at 9:30 p.m. at the Culver City Arclight. This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning, News, Wednesday, September 26, 2018.
"You Can Choose Your Family - One of my top three “Must See Festival Films” this year" - Debbie Elias
“Filled with laughter, joy, hijinks, hilarity and heartbreak, Bailey taps into every emotion that makes a family with Gaffigan and Logan Miller’s (who looks like a younger Michael Angarano) Phillip leading the charge.” - Debbie Elias
It’s clear director Miranda Bailey understands family dynamics very well and put in great effort to make them feel genuine rather than idealistic in this film. “You Can Choose Your Family” is an absolute emotional joy that will have you crying one moment and laughing the next.
They say you can’t choose your family, but director Miranda Bailey contends the opposite with her SXSW-premiering comedy, You Can Choose Your Family. Starring comedian Jim Gaffigan, Samantha Mathis, Anna Gunn and Logan Miller, the film centers on Frank, a seemingly normal father who turns out to have not one, but two families he’s been juggling for years.
The messages in You Can Choose Your Family are those that are relatable, and the screenwriter conveys that in such a genuine way. Between the relationships established between father and son, and the bonds that are tested in the film, we get messages to remind us of our own families and our own shortcomings. While the average person can look like they have it all together or that a family looks perfect is far from the truth. This reminds us that everyone has their faults and that no one is perfect.
Stars visit the Getty Images Portrait Studio Powered by Pizza Hut
Jim Gaffigan nails the lovable and despicable dad role
Portraying a believable, at times endearing – but adulterous – dad antihero can’t be easy. So, for her feature-length, narrative directorial debut, Miranda Bailey did the only reasonable thing: She cast beloved dad and comic, Jim Gaffigan.
Q&A with Director Miranda Baliey
As women gather to march on Washington D.C. this weekend, there are thousands more joining protest marches across the country. Many members of the creative community are in Park City, Utah for the weekend during the Sundance Film Festival.
Bailey wears a number of hats, including writer, director, actor and producer, as well as running her own production company, Cold Iron Pictures. This weekend, she's back in her hometown for the Vail Film Festival.
A24 has ushered in a renaissance of bizarre indies that tap strange, headline-catching ideas for very good purposes
It’s a bit of an odd comparison, but bear with me: Miranda Bailey is slowly evolving into the Forrest Gump of the indie film set. No, she doesn’t have the haircut. Or the accent. The love of chocolate… maybe. I don’t know. No, the Gumpian quality this producer has is ubiquity.
Miranda and Leila discuss LIKE COTTON TWINES while in Vail for the Vail Film Festival.
Watch Swiss Army Man producers Miranda Bailey and Amanda Marshall talk with Red Carpet Report at the 2017 Spirit Awards.
The film will make the directorial debut of Miranda Bailey, who worked as a producer on The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Swiss Army Man, and Don’t Think Twice
Jim Gaffigan just landed a starring movie role. According to Variety, Gaffigan has signed on to star in a comedy called You Can Choose Your Family as “the seemingly normal father of a loving family. However, his home life is hilariously turned upside down when his 17-year-old son discovers that his dad has a second family.”
It’s all about awards this week on BEHIND THE LENS as they welcome special guest, producer Miranda Bailey!
You may not know the name MIRANDA BAILEY, but you definitely know the films she has helped shepherd to the big screen – THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, DON’T THINK TWICE, THE SQUID & THE WHALE, SUPER and TIME OUT OF MIND, as well as many others. And now, Miranda is back with SWISS ARMY MAN. Criticallyacclaimed and Spirit Award Nominee for Best First Feature with writers/directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, SWISS ARMY MAN takes cinematic risks, a hallmark of the films Miranda produces.
"I’ve been coming to Sundance for seven years and feel that I’ve moved up the ladder from year to year. I found myself talking with Miranda Bailey (who produced Sundance 2016’s hit film Swiss Army Man and 2015’s Diary of a Teenage Girl) about this and she explained the Sundance system using her own career road as an example. I got a good laugh out of this and hope you do too!"
Miranda welcomed Eden Magazine into her lovely home for an interview and photoshoot. Eden Magazine's Maryam Morrison described the experience as a beautiful place where you could immediately feel the warmth and humbleness of her own nature.
Moveable Fest celebrates the people who made some of the best films of the year possible.
"It feels like Bailey is just getting started. That might sound odd for someone as prominent as she has been in indie film circles over the last decade, but after working in nearly every capacity in the industry, the multi-hyphenate has put it all together to make seemingly impossible films possible from writer/directors with both deeply personal visions and a different way of looking at the world."
As CEO of Cold Iron Pictures, Miranda Bailey believed strongly in Marielle Heller’s directorial debut, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, itself an adaptation of the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner. As a producer, Bailey had already proven herself to have a keen eye—she executive produced Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, and more recently, Time out of Mind, an upcoming IFC film starring Richard Gere, which premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the International Critics’ Prize.
JORDANBRADY.COM | Acclaimed Film Producer Miranda Bailey On Producing “DON’T THINK TWICE”.
Miranda Bailey is a prolific film producer, actress and director. Currently, she’s got two wonderful films in theaters, “Swiss Army Man” and “Don’t Think Twice”, the latter opening wide this weekend. Go see it. It stars Keegan Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Tami Sagher, Chris Gethard, Kate Micucci and the film’s writer/director Mike Birbiglia. It’s funny, sad, heartfelt and the best look at the world of improvisational comedy ever.
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE | Producer Miranda Bailey Debunks "Swiss Army Man" Controversy and Challenges Conventions about Women in Film
Filmmaker chats with Bailey about juggling acting, writing, directing, and producing, the controversy over Swiss Army Man, and her thoughts on female directors.
"You may not know Miranda Bailey’s name, but you probably know her work. As an actress, writer, director and producer, Miranda Bailey has a hand in just about every aspect of the independent film business."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | "Diary of a Teenage Girl" wins SPIRIT AWARD for BEST FIRST FEATURE
"Sometimes a project comes along that just changes your whole life, and this project was that for me. I've been working on it for eight years, and I can't believe I'm standing up here," said Heller, who proceeded to thank her cast and crew.
NY TIMES | The Loneliness of a Brother’s Caregiver by Neil Genzlinger
Review of "Answers To Nothing"
"Most compelling may be the performance of Miranda Bailey, whose character, Drew, is trying to run a marathon while pushing her brother, a paraplegic, in a wheelchair. Drew is also her brother’s caregiver, and Ms. Bailey expertly conveys both the exhaustion and the loneliness of that role."
VARIETY | 2016 Spirit Awards Nominations
DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL nominated for 3 Spirit Awards in 2016
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Marielle Heller, Miranda Bailey, Anne Carey, Bert Hamelinck, Madeline Samit
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Marielle Heller
BEST FEMALE LEAD
Bel Powley
INDIEWIRE | 9 Hidden Gems from the 2016 Sundance Lineup
SWISS ARMY MAN
Directors Daniels win Sundance 2016 Best Directing Award for a U.S. Dramatic Feature
THE WRAP | SXSW Film Festival Adds Mike Birbiglia’s ‘Don’t Think Twice’
DON'T THINK TWICE to premiere at SXSW 2016