Debra Granik
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Debra Granik (born February 6, 1963) is an American filmmaker.
She is most known for 2004's Down to the Bone, which starred Vera Farmiga, 2010's Winter's Bone, which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout performance and for which Granik was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and 2018's Leave No Trace, a film based on the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock.
Early life and education
Granik was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father William R. Granik, who was an attorney with H.U.D. who litigated fair housing, and mother Brenda Granik Zusman. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Her parents divorced in 1978.
Granik is the granddaughter of broadcast pioneer Ted Granik (1907–1970), founder and moderator of the long-run public affairs panel discussion program, The American Forum of the Air, on from 1934 to 1956, first on the radio and later on television. Granik is from a Jewish family.
In 1985, Granik received her B.A. in political science from Brandeis University. As an undergraduate at Brandeis, Granik also took classes at the Studio for Interrelated Media at the Massachusetts College of Art. In 2001, Granik received an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Personal life
Granik is married to Jonathan Scheuer, who has executive produced her films and is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of National Jazz Museum in Harlem. They live in New York City and have a daughter.
Career
While attending Brandeis, Granik attended Henry Felt's film and media workshop and volunteered with the Boston grassroots filmmaking group Women's Video Collective. At the Massachusetts College of Art, she also took film classes. Granik produced educational films for trade unions on topics such as workplace health and safety, one of which was created for the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety. Granik spent time on educational media projects before moving to New York University for filmmaking.
Granik produced Snake Feed, her first short film produced as her senior thesis, with NYU film professor Boris Frumin's mentorship, who was instrumental in spreading his enthusiasm for post-World War II European neorealist films. Snake Feed, which began as a 7-minute documentary portrait exercise, was accepted into the Sundance Institute's Lab for screenwriting and directing. At the Sundance Lab, Granik supervised the short film and turned it into a full film. Snake Feed was a work of narrative fiction, according to Granik, with the main protagonists, recovering addict Irene, and her boyfriend Rick playing dramatized versions of themselves.
The short film Snake Feed and the lives of Irene and Rick became the basis of Granik's first feature-length film, Down to the Bone, which was a fictionalized representation of their struggles. The tale of an upstate New York mother who goes to recover from heroin use to a nurse and then falls back into her old drug habits. Down to the Bone was based on an original screenplay by Granik and her creative partner, Anne Rosellini. Farmiga's reputation as an actor was raised thanks to the role of the main character Irene, portrayed by Vera Farmiga. In Ulster County, New York, a bullet was fired to the bone.
Winter's Bone, Granik's second film, was an adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 book. It's the life of Ree Dolly, a teenager who lives in the Missouri Ozark Mountains and who is the sole caregiver for her two younger siblings and her catatonic mother. She is compelled to locate her missing drug-dealing father in order to keep her family from being evicted.
Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes, a then-unknown teenager, were among the winning of the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which culminated in a distribution agreement with Roadside Attractions. Jennifer Lawrence's Bone received the Best Director and Best Actress award at the Seattle International Film Festival. Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, and Best Supporting Actor for John Hawkes were among the four Academy Awards nominated for 2011. The film featured a soundtrack made up of old time gospel, bluegrass, and traditional music from the Ozarks, and was directed by Steve Peters. Marideth Sisco, who served as a music and folklore consultant for the area, appeared in the Winter's Bone and performed in it. On the soundtrack, actor John Hawkes performs one track.
On location in southern Missouri's Ozark district, Winter's Bone was shot. Many of the supporting roles with first-time actors from the immediate area were cast on film, and all of the homes on screen were established Ozark homes—no sets were built for this film. Granik maintained most of the house's established aesthetics, although some of the few mementos were added to the homes by Ozark people in the neighborhood.
American High Life, Granik, produced and directed an HBO television pilot called American High Life. "Foll a young career woman to her economically impoverished small hometown town in the midwest," the show was a family tale. The program was not picked up by the audience.
Granik produced a film adaptation of Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks' 1995 book, but the scheme is still in process.
Stray Dog, Granik's film from 2014, was released. Ron Hall, whose nickname is "Stray Dog," is depicted in this film as an avid biker and Vietnam veteran who has occasional problems with PTSD. Hall's participation in "Ride to the Wall" a year-old motorcycle ride in Washington, D.C., is chronicled in the film.
Leave No Trace, starring Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie, was released in 2018 by Bleecker Street and internationally by Sony Worldwide Acquisitions. The film tells the tale of a father and his daughter who are forced to adapt to more normal life in modern life. It discusses notions of self-reliance and community, and it was a critic's pick of The New York Times. Leave No Trace premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and attended the Cannes Film Festival, and was shot in the forested areas of Oregon, including Forest Park near Portland, Oregon, over the course of 30 days. In addition to Oregon, Washington state was used for shootings, with some scenes shot at a Christmas tree farm. Leave No Trace took about three and a half years to develop, from the first time Granik read Peter Rock's book, My Abandonment, on which the film was based.
Granik has several other projects in progress, including a documentary about life after being released from jail and on the subject of recidivism in East Baltimore, as well as pieces of her book Grace After Midnight, but it is now a documentary about four former prisoners in New York City.
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich's book, On (Not) Getting By in America, which focuses on poverty and the working poor in America, is another project.