In this video, posted recently by The Times-Picayune, Director Benh Zeitlin explains.

Over on Facebook, we’ve got an album of images from the exhibit — some found by searching Instagram, like the one below, and a few posted by the gang at Court 13 — (who have recently begun Instagramming at handle @court13films) that offer a glimpse of the exhibit.

If you have any photos to contribute and we’re missing yours, please email us at beasts@beastsofthesoutherwild.com.

by @trevytoe on Instagram

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“FILM FORWARD is an international touring program designed to enhance greater cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue around the globe by engaging audiences through the exhibition of films, workshops and conversations with filmmakers.”

Through the program, we’ve been able to share the film with audiences around the world in Jordan, Mexico, Puerto Rico and more. Part of Film Forward’s initiative is not only to share films with global audiences but also to encourage dialogue and conversation.

Our friends at Film Forward were kind enough to share their discussion guides with the entire Beasts family. Feel free to use these resources as a guideline in your film group, classroom, church or wherever Beasts is talked about. The PDF’s are available for download below:

Film Forward Discussion Guide – Basic discussion questions to kick start conversation about the themes within the film

Film Forward Activation Activities – Generated for classrooms but applicable to anyone, these activation activities help trigger discussion about how the film and its themes relate to viewers on a personal level

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Jarvis DeBerry, an editorial writer and columnist at The Times-Picayune in News Orleans, dissects a criticism he has heard about the portrayal of race in Beats of the Southern Wild, and shares his reaction to it

Of course, when your characters are black and celebrate their attachment to nature, when the title of your movie contains the words “beasts” and “wild,” you leave yourself open to accusations of racism, to claims that you see black people as primitive, if not altogether savage. And when your characters ignore the evacuation order that precedes an approaching storm, you might stand accused of romanticizing people who don’t have the sense to come in out of the rain.

As a rural Southerner who has never felt completely at peace in the city and as a New Orleanian who stayed during Hurricane Katrina and interviewed others who did the same, I find both criticisms problematic. Urbanization has been black Americans’ most recent trend, but it is not our historical norm. Thinking of ourselves exclusively as city dwellers helps us forget one of the greatest crimes committed against us: the systematic separation of black folks from their land.

Read the full article at Colorlines.com.

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It’s all happening this summer, August, 8th at the Prospect Park Bandshell and is free to all. We’re hoping to press more copies of the vinyl in time for the event, so stay tuned for more info!

Until then, please join, invite and share our Facebook Event here.

And to hold you over, check out this live performance of “Once There Was A Hushpuppy”!

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The James Beard Foundation interviewed producer Josh Penn about the role of food in Beasts of the Southern Wild and within film in general.

JP: So much of the culture in the Louisiana bayou is about food, and more specifically, living off the water. It’s intertwined with everything, it defines the community, and is something that we really wanted to capture. Our first day of shooting was actually the day of the BP oil spill. Most people in the area live off the water in some way or another, and the spill threatened their entire lifestyle—because whether or not it’s your livelihood, it’s still the source of what you eat. It’s what’s all around you. It really underscored how food is interwoven into every aspect of life there. And the approach to food and how it should be eaten would obviously be different if we were telling a story about another community. I’m sure they eat crabs pretty differently on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Read the full interview here.

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MAKING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD PART I

MAKING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD PART II

SCORING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

MEET THE STAR OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

THE CINEMATOGRAPHY BEHIND BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

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Check it out here.

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Don’t try this at home.

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You won’t have to wait long to see our girl, Quvenzhané Wallis, back on the big screen.

Industry blog, The Wrap, reports that Quvenzhané has been cast in the lead role of Annie in a remake to be produced by “James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith through Overbrook Entertainment, and by Shawn “Jay Z” Carter, Jay Brown and Tyran “Ty Ty” Smith through Marcy Media”. The film will be directed by Will Gluck whose credits include Easy A and Friends with Benefits.

Congrats to Quvenzhané!

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