EXCLUSIVE: Vary Media Companions has signed manufacturing firm Chilly Iron Photos and its founder & CEO, producer, author, director and actor Miranda Bailey, for administration.
Chilly Iron Photos has backed a few of the most acclaimed indies of the final decade, together with the Daniel’s first characteristic, Swiss Military Man, Mike Birbiglia’s improv troupe dramedy Don’t Suppose Twice, Marielle Heller’s Unbiased Spirit Award-winning debut characteristic The Diary of a Teenage Lady, and the thriller God’s Nation starring Thandiwe Newton which premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant, amongst different titles.
Chilly Iron’s newest characteristic, By Design — an avant-garde physique swap comedy from writer-director Amanda Kramer — premiered to robust critiques at Sundance 2025 and is being represented for home gross sales by Vary Choose. Additionally behind the 2024 Tribeca coming-of-age drama Jazzy, which was nominated for 2 Unbiased Spirit Awards, the corporate’s first TV sequence, Package Williamson’s Unconvention, was picked up as a Revry Unique Sequence and is now streaming.
Past Chilly Iron Photos, Bailey has produced Indie Spirit and Gotham Award-nominated movies together with Noah Baumbach’s fashionable basic The Squid and the Whale, The Diary of a Teenage Lady, God’s Nation, and Jazzy. As a director, her credit embrace a number of documentaries, in addition to her SXSW award-winning narrative directing debut, Being Frank, a comedy starring Jim Gaffigan. Additionally beforehand directing a number of episodes of Unconventional, Bailey’s subsequent movie can be Bumpin’ Into Stardom, which she’s set to direct from her personal script. Already, the undertaking has been awarded first place on the StoryPros Screenwriting Awards for comedy, registering as a Quarterfinalist within the Screencraft Comedy Screenplay Contest.
Bailey can be the founding father of CherryPicks, a evaluate aggregation platform the place customers can discover movie and TV suggestions, reads and critiques solely from feminine and non-binary critics. Chilly Iron Photos and Bailey proceed to be represented by Ramo Legislation.
