About the film
The waters are rising and everything south of the levee is going under, in this tale of a six-year-old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy, Wink, at the edge of the world.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
— BY Benh Zeitlin
status
Completed
type
Fiction
year
2012
director
Benh Zeitlin
producers
Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn
Synopsis
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. 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 unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a Cinereach Production.
