Anne Rosellini | |
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.jpg) Rosellini in 2018 | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer,screenwriter |
| Children | 1 |
Anne Rosellini is an Americanfilm producer andscreenwriter. She is best known for writing and producing the 2010 filmWinter's Bone with her frequent collaboratorDebra Granik. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including theAcademy Award for Best Picture and forBest Adapted Screenplay. Before becoming a film producer, she was a programmer for various film festivals in Seattle, Washington.
Rosellini grew up inMercer Island, Washington, where she attendedMercer Island High School.[1] She later received aBachelor of Fine Arts, focusing on film theory and film history, from theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating she relocated toSeattle and established the 1 Reel Film Festival, an annual presentation of short films, while also selecting films to play at theSeattle International Film Festival and the city's Women in Film Festival.[2] She worked briefly in film acquisitions forArab Film Distribution andAtom Films before moving to New York.[1]
In New York, Rosellini began to collaborate withDebra Granik, who at the time was writing a feature film and sought a producer. The project eventuated asDown to the Bone, released in 2004, which was produced by Rosellini and co-written and directed by Granik.[3] Rosellini went on to produce the 2007 horror filmCthulhu before returning to work with Granik on a second feature together. After readingDaniel Woodrell's bookWinter's Bone, Rosellini and Granik decided to write a screenplay based on the manuscript together.[3] Rosellini had no prior experience inscreenwriting, but she has said, "I didn't have the money to hire a writer, so I just decided to do it myself."[2] The film,Winter's Bone, which was produced by Rosellini, took several years to write, cast and film, and was released in 2010. It received a multitude of accolades, including fourAcademy Award nominations and sevenIndependent Spirit Award nominations.[3] Of those, Rosellini was personally nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and the Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. Rosellini and Granik also won aHumanitas Prize for Sundance Feature Films.[4]
In 2013, Rosellini and Granik were collaborating on another film adaptation of a book as well as a documentary film.[2]
Rosellini lives inBrooklyn with her partner and their son, born in 2010.[3]
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