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Italian actor and director Valeria Golino has been set as jury president for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival this year. Golino is known for her work in English-language titles such as Rain Man and Hot Shots! and also directed 2018 Un Certain Regard selection Euphoria. She'll be joined by U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) is set to direct a feature adaptation of Una LaMarche’s YA novel Like No Other. She and Anne Rosellini of Still Rolling Productions optioned the book, in partnership with Mad Dog Film’s Alix Madigan. Published in 2015 by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, Like No Ot…

In Leave No Trace, breakout star Thomasin McKenzie plays Tom, a girl living in the woods with her post-traumatic stress-affected father (Ben Foster), and for much of the film, it’s just McKenzie and Foster sharing the screen in cramped outdoor-survival conditions. Speaking onstage at Deadline’s The Contenders New York…

Ben Foster is pacing Manhattan trying to ignore the clamor. "Sorry about all the sirens!" he groans apologetically. He's just gotten home from starring as 14th Century general Jan Žižka in the biopic Medieval, hyped as Czechoslovakia's biggest blockbuster to date, and Foster just wanted to stroll around to appreciate…

In 2010, Debra Granik made Winter's Bone, the film that first showcased the skill of Jennifer Lawrence, who would be Oscar-nominated for her breakthrough performance. Granik returns to narrative eight years on with Leave No Trace, which tells the story of Will and Tom, a father and daughter living an unconventional…

Writer-director Debra Granik’s latest film Leave No Trace stars Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie as a military-veteran father and his daughter living off the grid until they are pulled back into the modern world. The Bleecker Street pic, which hit theaters in June, has been gathering awards buzz — it’s up for a Spirit…

Bleecker Street’s Leave No Trace follows a military vet, Will (Ben Foster), and his daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), who have lived off the grid for years in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Their lives are turned upside down when they are put into social services and live in conventional housing and…

With her first narrative film since her acclaimed 2010 indie hit Winter’s Bone landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination and made a star out of Jennifer Lawrence, director Debra Granik has scored again with another film set in the rural outdoor environment. This time it is just outside Portland, OR, and inspired by a…

Making its international premiere in Directors’ Fortnight, Debra Granik's acclaimed Sundance title Leave No Trace left many veteran festivalgoers wondering why so many inferior films had managed to leapfrog it into the Official Selection. Told with great narrative economy, and featuring two sublime performances, the…

Debra Granik likes to take her time. Since her first, award-winning short, Snake Feed, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, the 55-year-old director has made just three features and a doc in the intervening 20 years. Indeed, in the gap between her latest movie and the last, Winter's Bone, Granik has seen…

EXCLUSIVE: Leave No Trace was acquired by Bleecker Street at Sundance this year, and now we are getting a first-look trailer for the film that stars Ben Foster and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) the film was adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini from the Peter Rock novel My Abandonm…

Sundance London (May 31 – June 3), the Sundance Film Festival’s London spinoff, will present 12 movies from this year’s Park City festival including Jennifer Fox's The Tale and Debra Granik's Winer’s Bone follow-up Leave No Trace. The event will open with the UK premiere of Fox's hit, starring Laura Dern and Elizabeth…