Renzi has signed with BAFTA-winning director Babak Anvari and his production company Two and Two Pictures.
The London-based Iranian-born filmmaker’s feature directorial debut, Under the Shadow, which he also wrote, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The Persian psychological paranormal horror film Anvari established itself as one of the festival’s biggest discoveries, with Netflix quickly acquiring and subsequently releasing the film to continued critical acclaim. The film won numerous film festival awards, including the Sitges New Visions Award. It was selected as Best British Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, and was nominated for two BAFTA Awards in 2017, winning Outstanding Debut Film. It was also nominated for six British Independent Film Awards, winning Best Original Screenplay among two other awards.
Anvari’s second feature film, Wounds, which he also wrote and produced, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. The psychological horror film, starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz, was released on Hulu in the US and Netflix internationally. His next film was the neo-noir thriller “I Came By” for Netflix. Anvari’s latest film, Hallow Road, starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, premiered at SXSW in 2025 to positive reviews.
In television, Anvari served as an executive producer on Hulu’s horror drama anthology series Monsterland, where he also directed the series finale.
Anvari is also the co-founder of Two & Two Pictures, a production company he founded with Lucan To. The London and Los Angeles-based company focuses on elevated, filmmaker-driven genre films aimed at audiences around the world. Two & Two’s films include Jean-Stephane Sauveur’s Asphalt City, which premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “Arcadia” directed by Yorgos Zois premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. Max and Sam Eggers’ debut work “The Front Room” (A24). and Fackham Hall, directed by Jim O’Hanlon and starring Thomasin McKenzie and Damian Lewis. Next, Two & Two will produce You Mother Your Mother Your Mother, starring Mahershala Ali and directed by Bassam Tariq, for Orion MGM, scheduled for release later this year.
Anvari continues to be repped by WME, Independent Talent Group and Ziffren Brittenham. Two & Two Pictures will continue to be represented by WME and Ziffren Brittenham.
