Beasts of the Southern Wild Quvenzhané Wallis & Benh Zeitlin Interview

Benh Zeitlin talks about casting Quvenzhané Wallis to play Hushpuppy, the making of Beasts of the Southern Wild & New Orleans baker Dwight Henry. Beasts of the Southern Wild is in UK cinemas 19 October 2012. http://bit.ly/movie-interviews-tv - Watch more movie interviews! http://FlicksAndTheCity.com - Visit Flicks and the City!   / flicksandthecity   - Like Flicks and the City on Facebook!   / flickscity   - Follow Flicks and the City on Twitter! Interviewer: Jan Gilbert   / jan_gilbert   - Follow Jan on Twitter! http://JanGilbert.co.uk - Visit JanGilbert.co.uk! Featured on http://flicksandthecity.com/beasts-of... Quvenzhané Wallis / Hushpuppy Quvenzhané Wallis was born on August 28, 2003, in Houma, Louisiana. She attends Honduras Elementary School and is in the 3rd grade. She is the daughter of Venjie Sr. and Qulyndreia Wallis. Qunyquekya, Venjie Jr., and Vejon are her siblings. Her favorite pasttimes are reading, singing, dancing, acting, and playing her iPod and Nintendo DS. Her favortie TV stars/singers are China McClain, Selena Gomez, and Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus). Her favorite food is stir fry Alfredo Chicken. Her favourite sports are Basketball, Volleyball, Dance and Cheerleading and has appeared on Jay Leno, Oprah, David Letterman, The View, the Today show with Andrew Garfield. Benh Zeitlin / Director/Co-Writer/Composer Benh Zeitlin is a filmmaker, composer, animator, and founding member of Court 13. His awardwinning shorts include Egg, Origins of Electricity, I Get Wet, and Glory at Sea (with Dan Romer). Benh's first feature Beasts of the Southern Wild participated in the Sundance Labs and was supported by San Francisco Film Society, Rooftop Films, NHK, and Cinereach. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a pack of wild animals and has appeared on Oprah. Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer preview clip spoiler soundtrack and teaser http://www.youtu.be/Wqt5m0OBkjE Directed by Benh Zeitlin Screenplay by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin Based on the stage play Juicy and Delicious written by Lucy Alibar U.S. Dramatic Competition Synopsis: In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the world by a sprawling levee, six year-old Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood. Her mother long gone, and her father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, Hushpuppy is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals. She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right. So when a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is suddenly stricken with illness, and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, Hushpuppy sees the natural order of everything she holds dear collapsing around her. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive an unstoppable catastrophe of epic proportions. Dwight Henry / Wink Doucet Dwight Henry's full name is Dwight David Henry, and he's lived in New Orleans most of his life. He is the son of Dr. Victor Arthur Henry, and his mother is Etna Henry. He has five children - Dwight Jr., Darius, Cameron, Dwayne, and D'juan. He's a self-made businessman; for the past 15 years, he's been the owner of Henry's Bakery & Deli, and he is the current owner of the Buttermilk Drop Bakery & Cafe, located at 1781 N. Dorgenois Street, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His passion is cooking, baking, and sports. And now, acting. Thanks to London Film Festival http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff