WINTER’S BONE Director/Co-Writer, Debra Granik on Casting the Film

Published on 2 Mar 2011 by The American Film Institute

Director/Co-Writer, Debra Granik talks about the different categories of casting for WINTER’S BONE.

The importance of getting the locals involved who can interact with the professional actors.

Example: Little Ashlee is from that exact property: “That house is her house” Granik reveals here!

Why Winter’s Bone should win the Oscar for Best film

https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2011/feb/21/oscars-videos-winters-bone

 

 

 

 

Winter’s Bone BBC interview with Granik and Lawrence

 

Published on 22 Mar 2012

Jennifer Lawrence chats to Charlie and Louise about Winter’s Bone on BBC Breakfast September 2010

BFI – Making Amy: how we created our Winehouse documentary

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/making-amy-how-we-created-our-winehouse-documentary

Director Asif Kapadia, producer James Gay-Rees and editor Chris King reveal the research, patience and tough decisions that informed their film about the best British singer of her generation.

An excellent article of interviews, containing great quotes like:

Kapadia: Amy came out of the audio interviews. The first thing was really doing these hundred audio interviews and then figuring out what we’re going to show, so it was actually the other way round.

One of my tutors at film school looked at some of my shorts I made years ago and said they were all about outsiders and I’ve continued to be about outsiders who are taking on a system or being pushed out by a society around them, which, weirdly enough, seems to be a theme …. Even Senna – he felt like an outsider, and Amy became something like that.

Gay-Rees: I had a few dilemmas about the film, full stop. There was a point when Asif and I were in New York and interviewing people. It was quite early on and I remember thinking that all the interviews we were doing there were just incessantly heavy. I think the scale of the heaviness dawned on us. I think the actual reality of what was going on was much darker than what we put in the film. I think if you put it in the movie it would be too unwatchable.

 

 

Into Film: The making of Amy with the editor, producer, and director Asif Kapadia. Very good for digital focus

TAKEN FROM INTO FILM: https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/amy-interviews

Amy interview with director Asif Kapadia

Hope also visited the film’s editor and producer to discuss the technical aspects of piecing together a complex documentary like Amy from hundreds of pieces of archive footage. You can see Hope’s investigation behind the scenes of an edit suite in the interview below.