10 Directors to Watch: Prano Bailey-Bond Steered Grisly ‘Censor’ Ship to Sundance Berth

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Guy Lodge Film CriticWelsh helmer Prano Bailey-Bond didn’t call herself a horror director until someone beat her to it. “I didn’t realize I was one for a long time,” she says.

As a teenager she was obsessed with David Lynch, Harmony Korine and Quentin Tarantino; college added a Douglas Sirk fixation to the mix.“I loved dark worlds, dark minds, characters who were slightly repressed, but not just in one genre.

Then the first short I made was about this god-fearing woman who hasn’t really lived, and ends up cutting a child’s heart out and eating it.

As you do,” she jokes. “Some time later, I had submitted for a funding application, and they phoned me up and said, ‘We see you’re a horror director and we have a script to show you.’ But that.