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After garnering near-universal acclaim with her 2010 thriller Winter’s Bone, which introduced the world to Oscar-winning superstar Jennifer Lawrence, director Debra Granik makes her long-awaited return to feature film with the empathetic and engrossing drama Leave No Trace one of my favorite movies of 2018.
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Film Independent has announced the nominations for the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards, and three of the five finalists in the best director category are women. This is the first time in Spirit Awards history that more women than men have been nominated for best director.
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Beloved by Sundance and other top film festivals, as well as by the Academy and indie awards organizations and a long list of awards-presenting critics groups, Debra Granik is attracting early Oscars buzz for Leave No Trace, her third narrative feature. AWFJ selected Leave No Trace as Movie of the Week for June 29, and an informal poll of AWFJ members shows that the film is placing high on most members’ lists of best 2018 films to date. AWFJ says Leave No Trace has legs that will lead to Oscars, come awards season
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Quiet and understated, Leave No Trace delves into difficult issues with compassion and suggestion in place of explicit, heavy-handed drama.
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Debra Granik’s sobering Leave No Trace, based on Peter Rock’s fact-based My Abandonment, follows a teenage girl and her father,
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The very idea of going off the grid sounds mighty appealing right about now. No cable news. No digital gadgets.
Read moreWith films like Winter’s Bone and documentary Stray Dog, Debra Granik has proved herself to be a masterful explorer of
Read moreDebra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a gem of a film, a quietly gripping drama about a father and daughter
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Filmmakers Debra Granik, Tory Stewart, Steve London, Marie-Lou Gingras and Mark Schuman, and IDFA film consultant Jannie Langbroek talk about how a filmmaker’s skill sets shape storytelling style. Jennifer Merin moderates the panel discussion at the AWFJ Filmmaker Forum @ SFF 2015.
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Returning to Salem Film Fest (March 5-12, 2015) for the fourth consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists has presented AWFJ EDA Awards to two outstanding female-directed documentaries, naming Debra Granik’s Stray Dog as Best Female-Directed Film, and awarding a special mention to BORN TO FLY: Elizabeth Streb vs Gravity, directed by Catherine Gund. Read on…
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