Debra Granik Background Made educational films for trade unions after graduating from Brandeis University Attended NYU graduate film program and made short Snake Feed 1998 which gained her entrance into ID: 405636
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Winter’s BoneSlide2
Debra
Granik: Background
Made educational films for trade unions after graduating from Brandeis University
Attended NYU graduate film program and made short,
Snake
Feed
(1998),
which gained her entrance into
Sundance
screenwriting and
directing
labs
Reworked
Snake Feed
into first feature,
Down to the Bone
(2004), story of mother attempting to overcome drug addiction. Slide3
From
Down to the Bone
to
Winter’s Bone
Granik
and writing partner Ann
Rosellini
given
pre-publication copy
of
Daniel
Woodrell’s
novel
,
Winter’s Bone
(2006)
“We had just come off a long year of reading scripts in which each female protagonist was more ill and rickety and pathetic and pathologically devastated than the last,” Ms.
Granik
said. “It went from cutting to sexual abuse to all forms of injuries. There was even a remake of ‘The Snake Pit’” (
Granik
, quoted in Ella Taylor, “
A
Director
Ever in
Search of Survivors
.”
The New York Times
4/30/2010).Slide4
Granik’s
Process
Uses “
organic, incremental process
” that involves:
Video and photographic documentation of daily lives of several families in Missouri Ozarks
Collaboration with blend of professional actors, regional actors, local non-actors, area musician/music historian, and local business owners, teachers/students and residents
Location shooting that incorporates elements of environment (décor, pets)Slide5
Granik’s
Style
Neo-realistic
, documentary-like style
No marks for actors, camera moves around and with them
Removing filmmaking accoutrements as much as possible (lighting interiors from the outside, for example)Slide6
Winter’s Bone
Production
Two-year preproduction to find and secure locations in rural south
Film shot in Taney and Christian counties, MO, on several family properties (
Layson
family, Fox family, Cook family)
25-day shoot from February to March 2009
Shot on high-resolution
Red DV camera
, with exception of Super-8 dream sequence
Budget: $2 millionSlide7
Winter’s Bone
Post-Production
Screened at 2010 Sundance Film Festival, winning Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film and Best Screenplay awards
Distributor Roadside Attractions purchases US distribution rights and releases in theaters via platform strategy
Won awards at Berlin International Film Festival, SIFF; nominated for multiple Oscars
Grossed $6.5 million US box office