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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Greenpoint playwright and screenwriter Lucy Alibar mines her childhood for the magical movie ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Nine years in Greenpoint but playwright and screenwriter Lucy Alibar still ...

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 ...

“The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right,” declares Hushpuppy, the fierce, nappy-headed girl at the center of this extraordinary southern gothic. Played with iron ...

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 ...

There was talk, back a week or so ago, about the perfect Father’s Day movie. Some made jokes about That’s My Boy, others took the opportunity to reassert the paternal themes across the work of Wes ...

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 ...