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Winter’s Bone

Winter’s Bone. 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

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Winter’s Bone

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  1. Winter’s Bone

  2. 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.

  3. 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 DirectorEver in Search of Survivors.” The New York Times 4/30/2010).

  4. 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)

  5. 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)

  6. 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 million

  7. 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

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