The music of Beasts lives on thanks to our friends at Celebrate Brooklyn! They’ve invited co-composers Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer and the Wordless Music Orchestra to perform the Beasts score LIVE against a music-less edit of the film. It’s all happening this summer, August, 8th at the Prospect Park Bandshell and is free to all. We’re hoping…
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The Creators Project on Beasts
The Creators Project produced a series of in depth videos on Beasts of the Southern Wild including featurettes on the Aurochs, cinematography and soundtrack. While you can find them listed throughout our blog, we thought it would be nice to view them all on one page/post. Enjoy! MAKING OF BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD PART I…
Beasts of the Southern Wild at the White House!
On Wednesday, February 13th, the cast and crew of Beasts of the Southern Wild including Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, and Benh Zeitlin, were invited by the First Lady Michelle Obama to screen the film and participate in a talk back with 80 students from the Washington, D.C. and New Orleans area. We can’t begin to describe…
Scoring Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Creators Project recently sat down with co-composers Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin to talk about their process of collaboration on the Beasts of the Southern Wild soundtrack. Behn credits their complementary skill sets as the reason why they were able to work so fluidly with one another. The musical pair first collaborated on the short film,…
Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Visual Arts
Benh Zeitlin receives the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Visual Arts tonight at a special ceremony in Washington, DC. The awards recognize and honor individuals who have exemplified innovation in a range of fields including social progress, natural and physical sciences, education, technology and youth achievement. Among the honorees are: Jack Andraka, a high school…
Feast of the Southern Wild!
Join us on Friday, November 23rd for an evening of food, friends and film! In celebration of the Beasts of the Southern Wild on demand release, we’re asking you to host a post-Thanksgiving Day Beasts watch party in your home! Get creative with leftovers, or if you want, we can send you our Bathtub inspired,…
Beasts on Vinyl!
The Beasts of the Southern Wild soundtrack has struck a chord (pun intended!) with so many of you. Whether the music brings you back to the film or resonates with you on a personal level, your response to the music has been overwhelming. A co-collaboration between long time friends, Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, and featuring…
Benh Zeitlin talks with the Sydney Morning Herald
Benh Zeitlin talks to Giles Hardie from the Sydney Morning Herald about showing the movie outside of Louisiana, the pigs, Miley Cyrus, and the “pile of movies” he wants to make.
