| Release Date |
| June 27, 2012 |
| Director |
| Benh Zeitlin |
| Screenplay |
| Lucy Alibar |
| Benh Zeitlin |
| Based On The Play By |
| Lucy Alibar |
| Distributed By |
| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| Budget |
| $1.8 million |
| Adventure, Drama, Fantasy Rated PG-13 for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sensuality 91 minutes |
| Beasts Of The Southern Wild |
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Impressive on most accounts, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” makes the most of its unknown director and first time cast to create a truly grand story of ingenuity. With the young Quvenzhane Wallis carrying most of the film with her narration and young body-old soul mentality, there’s an other-worldly-ness to the entire film, shot on location around New Orleans, a place depicted as being cut off from the world, where the small community of “the Bathtub” is impoverished by a storm that puts them underwater, for the most part. Finding strength in its father-daughter connection that is more about survival than love or compassion, there are so many ideas and themes in the film, it is hard to grasp and hold onto just one. In a truly unique adventure, Benh Zeitlin’s first feature film is a success.
