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The Making of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

By The Creators Project

Benh Zeitlin belongs to a group of Wesleyan film kids who believe in making films that take them on terrific adventures. For him and his crew, dubbed Court 13 in honor of the campus squash court where they conducted their formative film experiments, making a film should be as much of a transformative experience for the people making it as it is for the audiences who will eventually watch it.

That’s why for their critically acclaimed breakout feature Beasts of the Southern Wild they travelled to the depths of Louisiana and set up their production in an abandoned convenience store out in the bayou, amid the swamps and mosquitoes and oppressive heat. Their hope was to make film that celebrates a place that’s seemingly uninhabitable, but one that people love so dearly that they refuse to leave their homes—no matter how dire the situation is.

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