Beasts Of The Southern Wild

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, six year-old Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood. Her mother long gone, and her beloved father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, Hushpuppy is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals. She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right. So when a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is suddenly stricken with illness, and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, Hushpuppy sees the natural order of everything she holds dear collapsing around her. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive an unstoppable catastrophe of epic proportions.
USA
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2012

Director
Benh Zeitlin

Script
Benh Zeitlin
Lucy Alibar

Cinematography
Ben Richardson

Editing
Affonso Gonçalves
Samuel Crockett Doob

Production
Michael Gottwald

Cast
Dwight Henry
Levy Easterly
Lowell Landes
Pamela Harper
Quvenzhané Wallis

Music
Benh Zeitlin
Dan Romer

Awards
Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature Los Angeles
Best Director Seattle
Excellence in Cinematography Award Sundance
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Camera
Grand Jury Prize
Grand Prize
Prix Regards Jeune
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention Cannes
The Most Promising Newcomer Prize Deauvillle

Festivals
18th Festival on Wheels
WORLD CINEMA