City Weekly:What were the challenges of getting this film financed? Debra Granik: When we first started the journey with Winter’s Bone... people were very flush—this would be about five years ago—and ...

“Never ask for what ought to be offered,” 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her little brother in Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s dark and flinty Ozark fairy tale. Those are words to live ...

Debra Granik's Winter's Bone is one of the most genuine movies of recent memory. From the dialog to the performances, not a second of it goes by that feels contrived or manipulative. The film is just ...

Sundance has been good for writer-director Debra Granik (Down to the Bone). She won all three time she competed. Her newest, Winter's Bone, got the Grand Jury Prize this year. It's the importance of… ...

[audio-1] Winter's Bone director and co-screenwriter Debra Granik spoke to City Weekly about the challenges of getting the film made, and the satisfactions of having it... Facts Matter. Truth Matters.

Filmmaker Debra Granik and actor Melanie Lynskey will receive “Emerging Master” awards at this year’s RiverRun International Film Festival, organizers announced on Thursday. Granik is perhaps best ...

“Never ask for what ought to be offered,” seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her brother in Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s dark and flinty Ozark fairy tale. Those are words to live ...

In the dead of August, I am still shaking off the chill from Winter’s Bone. To simply classify the film as an Ozark Gothic mystery would be an underestimation. It is one of the finest movies of the ...

To Debra Granik, this year’s RiverRun Emerging Master, the job of the filmmaker is to take notes and ask questions. “I like to think the filmmaker is in this legacy of being like the ancient scribe,” ...

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