RT Features Partners with Prano Bailey-Bond "Things We Lost in The Fire"
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 July 2021 13:47
- Written by Hildy Johnson
Prano Bailey-Bond (Censor) will write and direct Things We Lost in the Fire, which is based on a short story of the same name from Argentine journalist and novelist Mariana Enriquez. Bailey-Bond is set to direct.
Baily-Bond is co-writing the script with Anthony Fletcher (Censor, The Boat People). RT Features' Rodrigo Teixeira (Call Me by Your Name) and Lourenço Sant'Anna (The Lighthouse) will produce, with Alan Terpins serving as Executive Producer.
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In Things We Lost in the Fire, a terrorized female community resorts to ever more extreme actions in response to male violence. The story marries elements of horror and feminism in a subversive commentary on the modern-day beauty myth; a dark vision of a society where women take back control of their image in the most drastic manner imaginable.
In 2017, Enriquez's Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego was translated into English by writer Megan McDowell, and published as Things We Lost in the Fire by Portobello Books in the U.K. and Hogarth in the U.S.
Prano Bailey-Bond commented: "This is an incredibly provocative and relevant story with a ferocious energy at its heart. It's an honour to adapt this story for the screen. RT Features have produced some of the most exciting cinema of recent years, working with many of my filmmaking heroes. I'm beyond thrilled to be working with them on this truly exciting project."
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RT Features' Rodrigo Teixeira added: "We've controlled this property for some time now and the fact that Prano reached out to us about it means a lot. She's incredibly talented, and Censor is a hell of a first feature. We couldn't be more excited to partner with Prano and Anthony to develop this script based on Mariana Enriquez's powerful short story."
Bailey-Bond is a director and writer originally from Wales. She was named a 2021 'Director to Watch' by Variety and a Screen International 'Star of Tomorrow' in 2018. Her debut feature film, Censor, starring Niamh Algar, opened the Midnight section of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and went on to be selected for the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section.
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RT Features is premiering two films during the Cannes Film Festival this week: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic's Murina in Director's Fortnight and Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island which will premiere In Competition. The company recently announced I'm Still Here, which Walter Salles will direct, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir about his mother Eunice Paiva and is prepping James Gray's Armageddon Time with Focus Features.
Bailey-Bond is represented by Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and UTA.
About RT Features
Founded by Rodrigo Teixeira in 2005, RT Features is an innovative production company based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that focuses on developing, producing, and financing high quality content ranging from original projects to acquisitions, for both film and television.
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Since its launch, RT Features has produced, co-produced or financed a remarkable slate of feature films including: Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, which garnered four Academy Award® nominations with one win; Jonas Carpignano's A Ciambra; Danielle Lessovitz's Port Authority; Karim Aïnouz's Invisible Life; Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe; Geremy Jasper's Patti Cake$ with Fox Searchlight; Crystal Moselle's Skate Kitchen; Ira Sachs' critically acclaimed Love is Strange for Sony Pictures Classics and Little Men; James Schamus' Indignation; Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha and Mistress America for Fox Searchlight; Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves; and Gaspar Noé's Love.
