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.

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.