Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Beasts of the Southern Wild is heralded “A poster child for everything American independent cinema aspires t be but so seldom is” by Todd McCarthy of The HollywoodReporter. The film is the striking and unforgettable feature film debut of director Benh Zeitlin, following a six-year-old girl in a defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world. She believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe—until a fierce storm changes her reality. Our young hero must find the courage to save her ailing father and reinstill a sense of community among the sinking spirits and homes. Fusing recent history with a mythic quality, Beasts of the Southern Wild defies easy classification or description, instead forging a new path that firmly establishes bright new cinematic talents that are not to be missed.