How Beasts Became a Film-Fest PhenomenonStanding ovations happen every year at the Cannes Film Festival, but rarely are they as long and as loud as this one.

The soggy patch of Delta Louisiana called The Bathtub is home to all manner of untamed marvels: crocodiles and boars, greenery and swarming green flies, a hardy band of humans who know it’s dangerous ...

Here is the full list of 2012 Sundance Film Festival awards winners, via press release: The 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards presented this evening were: The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was ...

A zealous gumbo of regionalism, magical realism, post-Katrina allegory, myth, and ecological parable, Beasts of the Southern Wild, the southern Louisiana–set debut feature of 29-year-old Benh Zeitlin, ...

The director of Beasts of the Southern Wild tells Caris Bizzaca how lucky he was to find his cast. Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin says legendary actors are made to be onscreen, but ...

Essentially, an extreme example of what happens at the evacuation center in Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Beasts is Zeitlin’s feature film debut, a small miracle of deliberate outsider art that ...

Turns out the Commander-in-Chief is also “Critic-in-Chief.” Oprah Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday” program on OWN focused on the hit summer indie film Beasts of the Southern Wild because Barack Obama ...

Thanks again to my friend and colleague, Dr. Sandra Fenster, for another film review gem in the following post! As I watched Benh Zeitlin’s poetic, gorgeously filmed movie, I kept asking myself: who ...

There’s something magical and mysterious about a 6-year-old’s view of the world, especially when that 6-year-old lives on the very edges of the world as she does in the fictional tale, “Beasts of the ...

When it comes to movies, “buzz” is a potentially game-changing—and potentially heartbreaking— phenomenon. And Beasts of the Southern Wild has felt both sides of the equation. At this year’s Sundance ...

Benh Zeitlin’s entrancing new film, also his first feature, has the heart and soul of true independent cinema. Shot on 16 millimetre film in the heart of Louisiana, the film was made for a little ...