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    For ‘Leave No Trace,’ director Debra Granik goes into the woods

    Debra Granik’s new movie, ‘Leave No Trace’ follows a father and daughter living completely off the grid, in the woods.

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    By Kim Masters • Jul 9, 2018 • 28m Listen

    Director Debra Granik gave Jennifer Lawrence her breakout role in her 2010 movie ‘Winter’s Bone.’ Lawrence skyrocketed to the highest levels of Hollywood stardom, while Granik has stuck to her indie roots, working with tiny budgets and lesser-known actors. For her new film, ‘Leave No Trace,’ Granik’s stars had to learn wilderness survival techniques as they prepared to play a father and daughter who make their home in the woods. Granik tells us what she’s been up to in the eight years since ‘Winter’s Bone,’ and explains how she imported the young actress playing the daughter in her newest film from New Zealand.

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    1. 1:21

      Hollywood news banter

      Scarlett Johansson finds herself in hot water , again, over another casting controversy.

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      7 min
    2. 8:08

      Director Debra Granik on ‘Leave No Trace’

      The new movie ‘ Leave No Trace ’ tells the story of a father and daughter living contentedly and almost invisibly off-the-grid in Forest Park, the 5200-acre woods inside the city limits of Portland, Oregon.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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    2 stories
    1. 1:217 min

      Hollywood news banter

    2. 8:0820 min

      Director Debra Granik on ‘Leave No Trace’

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