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Beasts of the Southern Wild (Q&A)

Benh Zeitlin and Quvenzhané Wallis show an easy rapport as they recall the ups and downs of making legends in the Southern Delta.

Inside Film 2012 13 mins

Overview

Benh Zeitlin's recipe had just two ingredients - 'fuse fables with reality' – but produced something of rare colour and complexity with Beasts of the Southern Wild. Quvenzhané Wallis, its then nine-year-old star, joins him as they embrace ecology and childhood soundscapes, and demonstrate why anger is best graded like traffic lights.