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Director Debra Granik on How She Wove Ex-Cons and the Fitness Industry Into Sundance Doc Series ’Conbody VS Everybody’
‘Winter’s Bone’ director Debra Granik on her Sundance doc series ‘Conbody’ about ex-cons and the fitness business in the U.S.
“I learned that reaching the five-year benchmark of staying out of prison was considered extremely positive statistically: the likelihood of returning becomes very small, so that seemed like a good framework,” Granik says. The project emerged from Granik’s research for a narrative film about a drug dealing ex-con from a writer on HBO’s “The Wire,” based on a character from the show. Coss had a vision that part of what was going to make their lives better were middle- and upper-class people meeting and working with them through professional services such as fitness, a turning point that the United States had not previously seen.
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