Debra Granik & Johan Miranda

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, we want to introduce you to a new comic: Johan Miranda. He lives in Los Angeles, was raised in San Francisco. When he was three years old, he and his parents traveled to the US on a tourist visa - and they haven't left since. Johan is one of the approximately 700,000 people covered under the US Government's DACA policy (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). A DREAMer. And as immigration rhetoric has ramped up, Johan's status in this country has grown even more uncertain. He's got a new one man show to talk just about that - it's called "Why Johan Miranda Should Be Deported" and it's debuting in Los Angeles on July 27. Then, after that: a conversation with Debra Granik. In 2010 she wrote and directed "Winter's Bone," the acclaimed drama that launched Jennifer Lawrence's career and was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Now, the long awaited follow-up is in theaters. It's called "Leave No Trace" and it's been met with similar acclaim. She and Jesse talk about the new film, about the pitfalls of calling an artist a "genius" and her first ever paid movie gig: shooting weddings! Finally: a tribute to Joe Pera. A comedian who will help you buy a tree. Or go to sleep. Or learn about iron.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.1	I'm Jesse Thorn. Right now, there are about 700,000 people enrolled in the U.S. government's
0:20.5	deferred action for childhood arrivals program. Dacca. They're all people who were brought
0:26.5	into the United States as kids without papers, dreamers, they call themselves. Dacca allows
0:33.6	them to stay and work and go to school legally. And if you're listening to NPR, you probably
0:39.4	don't need me to tell you this, but today, the residency status of the folks covered by
0:44.1	Dacca is uncertain. And people are worried about that. So anyway, there's this comedian named
0:50.0	Johann Miranda. He came here when he was three years old with his parents from Peru.
0:55.5	He signed up for Dacca and some of his friends signed up for Dacca too. And today, honestly,
1:02.5	he's not feeling that great about it. And I was the one that was like, no, we should trust
1:08.0	the government. We should, it'll be fine. And then, you know, so I was, I was the dummy
1:14.0	in hindsight for trusting the government. Yeah, it's Bullseye.
1:26.2	Coming up, Johann Miranda, a dreamer, a stand up comic, and a very chill dude. Looking
1:32.7	back and hindsight, it is, you know, weird to think about like, how much of my personality
1:37.0	is just me, like coping with the parameters I'm set with, you know, because I am kind of
1:44.0	like a chill dude. Like, I don't, you know, easy going, God, but how much of that is just
1:49.1	me being like, don't deport me. Then Deborah Granick. She's the writer and director of
1:55.8	Wintersbone, the Academy Award-nominated drama from 2010. She's just come out with a long
2:01.0	awaited follow-up to the movie called Leave No Trace. Both are very serious, compassionate
2:06.6	films about family, poverty, and trauma. But how should you get her start? Making wedding
2:13.3	videos. You know, I was very interested in like, the, you know, ECU and the comedy of like,
2:20.0	not being able to put something onto the pell, you know, I loved photographing the elders,
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