Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Director: Benh Zeitlin
- Writer: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar
- Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry
- Language: English
- Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 2012 11:54 AM
- Festivals: Sundance Film Festival
- On The Web Film Website
Synopsis: Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six year old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the world. [Courtesy Sundance Film Festival]
READ MORE ABOUT Beasts of the Southern WildReviews
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SUNDANCE REVIEW: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Renders a Child's Mind With Vivid Results
Benh Zeitlin's 2006 short film, "Glory at Sea," rendered post-Katrina grief with an overwhelming sense of magic realism that quickly turned the project into a sleeper hit on the festival circuit. "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Zeitlin's feature-length debut, contains much...
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News
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SFIFF Bestows Graham Leggat Award to "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Director Zeitlin; Film to Play Cannes in Un Certain Regard
It's a great day to be Behn Zeitlin. Not only did his Sundance Grand Jury prize-winning "Beasts of the Southern Wild" land in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, but the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival (April 19 - May 3) is bestowing upon him their inaugural Graham Leggat Award at their Film Society awar...
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First Look: Fox Searchlight Unveils 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Poster
You'll be hearing a lot about this Sundance jury-prize-winner film as the year progresses, as it winds its way through Cannes and other festivals, into release and Oscar contention. Here's the new poster.
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"Beasts of the Southern Wild" Wins Sundance Institute's $10,000 Indian Paintbrush Award
Josh Penn and Dan Janvey, producers of the Sundance 2012 U.S. Dramatic Competition hit "Beasts of the Southern Wild," received the inaugural Sundance Institute Indian Paintbrush Producer’s Award and its accompanying $10,000 grant at the annual Producers Lunch held this afternoon in P...
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San Francisco Film Society & Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announce Recipients of 6 Filmmaking Grants Worth $300,000
Six projects have been awarded a total of $300,000 from The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants. The twice-annual grants are given to narrative feature projects with social justice themes that will have a significant professional or economic impact on the B...
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2 Comments
robert a | January 31, 2012 8:52 AM
i see there are a few links, but not many. sorry... not a fan of star/grade ratings without anything to back them up.
robert a | January 31, 2012 8:44 AM
Where are the links to the actual reviews? Letter grades alone are fairly useless.