Debra Granik

Debra Granik, born on February 6, 1963, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the granddaughter of Theodore Granik, founder-moderator of TV’s long run panel discussion program, The American Forum of the Air. She graduated from the Brandeis University in 1985 where she got introduced to documentary film, democratic media, and feminism. Later she started making educational films for trade unions. She also earned an MFA from the graduate film program at New York Click to look into! >> Read More... University where she was mentored under the guidance of Boris Frumin and directed her first short film Snake Feed.

This American independent film director won a series of Awards including screenwriting and directing at the Sundance Film Festival for the same short film. Dramatic Directing Award in 2004 for Down to the Bone which her first feature-length film, it was an expanded version of Snake Feed. The movie narrates the story of an upstate New York mother, a cocaine drug addict. She goes to a rehabilitation centER to free herself of the addiction but ends up falling in love with the nurse there. With his help, she falls back to her earlier drug habits.

The story is inspired by a real-life character Granik met while attending the film school. The screenplay is written by Granik and her creative partner Anne Rosellini Screen Writer and film producer Anne Rosellini is >> Read More... . Granik’s second venture Winter’s Bone is the story of Ree Dolly, an Ozark teenager who is forced to take care of her two younger siblings as her mother is inert and withdrawn. To save her family from eviction, she is forced to hunt down her missing drug –dealer father. Again she combines with her partner to do the screenplay inspired by the novel of the same name.

The movie starring John Hawkes John Hawkes is a veteran actor who is known for hi >> Read More... , and Jennifer Lawrence She’s an Academy Award winning actress at her youn >> Read More... won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival also the Golden Space Needle Audience Award for Best Director and Best Actress at International Film Festival. The film also received four Academy Awards nominations. The most interesting part is that no sets were built for this movie. The movie was entirely shot in the Ozark territory of Missouri.in 2011 she received the director’s award at the Athena Film Festival She kept most of the established buildings and houses as such for the shooting purposes. She is all geared to produce and direct American Highlife, on HBO television.