EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed production company Cold Iron Pictures and its founder & CEO, producer, writer, director and actor Miranda Bailey, for management.
Cold Iron Pictures has backed some of the most acclaimed indies of the last decade, including the Daniel’s first feature, Swiss Army Man, Mike Birbiglia’s improv troupe dramedy Don’t Think Twice, Marielle Heller’s Independent Spirit Award-winning debut feature The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and the thriller God’s Country starring Thandiwe Newton which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, among other titles.
Cold Iron’s latest feature, By Design — an avant-garde body swap comedy from writer-director Amanda Kramer — premiered to strong reviews at Sundance 2025 and is being represented for domestic sales by Range Select. Also behind the 2024 Tribeca coming-of-age drama Jazzy, which was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, the company’s first TV series, Kit Williamson’s Unconvention, was picked up as a Revry Original Series and is now streaming.
Beyond Cold Iron Pictures, Bailey has produced Indie Spirit and Gotham Award-nominated films including Noah Baumbach’s modern classic The Squid and the Whale, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, God’s Country, and Jazzy. As a director, her credits include several documentaries, as well as her SXSW award-winning narrative directing debut, Being Frank, a comedy starring Jim Gaffigan. Also previously directing several episodes of Unconventional, Bailey’s next film will be Bumpin’ Into Stardom, which she’s set to direct from her own script. Already, the project has been awarded first place at the StoryPros Screenwriting Awards for comedy, registering as a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Comedy Screenplay Contest.
Bailey is also the founder of CherryPicks, a review aggregation platform where users can find film and TV recommendations, reads and reviews exclusively from female and non-binary critics. Cold Iron Pictures and Bailey continue to be represented by Ramo Law.
