New Orleans Film Society

Wednesday 12/14/2011

Congratulations to New Orleans-based film production company Court 13, for the success of their film Beasts of the Southern Wild in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival! Beasts of the Southern Wild premiered in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance, alongside 15 other American narrative feature films. It garnered the Sundance Institute’s Indian Paintbrush Producer’s Award as well as the Grand Jury Prize and the Excellence in Cinematography Award for the U.S. dramatic category.

Made in Louisiana, this film is directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar. The film is described as “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. Cast: Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry.”

Zeitlin’s last film, a short called Glory at Sea, won the Best Narrative Film at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2008.

For more information about Beasts of the Southern Wild, see their website at http://www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com