Even the most inspirational films about growing up in the inner-city have a tendency to look down on their subjects, ...

Here is the full list of 2012 Sundance Film Festival awards winners, via press release: The 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards presented this evening were: The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was ...

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild, released in July, has been widely acclaimed as one of the best independent films of the year by everyone from the New Yorker to Ebony. The story follows a 10-year ...

Hushpuppy, the 6-year-old at the center of Beasts of the Southern Wild, is played by Quvenzhane Wallis, who was found by director Benh Zeitlin in a Louisiana elementary school. The parents of director ...

There was talk, back a week or so ago, about the perfect Father’s Day movie. Some made jokes about That’s My Boy, others took the opportunity to reassert the paternal themes across the work of Wes ...

After making quite a splash at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (Alex gave a rave review of the magical film which you can read right here), Fox Searchlight picked up the phenomenal ...

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" came out of nowhere to win the Cinematography Award and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance earlier this year, and now those of you who didn't brave the frozen tundra of Utah in ...

When it comes to movies, “buzz” is a potentially game-changing—and potentially heartbreaking— phenomenon. And Beasts of the Southern Wild has felt both sides of the equation. At this year’s Sundance ...

Essentially, an extreme example of what happens at the evacuation center in Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Beasts is Zeitlin’s feature film debut, a small miracle of deliberate outsider art that ...

A local documentary filmmaker created the movie behind one of the hottest films of the year starring one special little girl. Brooklyn-based Cameron Yates, a Culpeper native, generated "The Making of ...

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" star Quvenzhane Wallis can add another trophy to her case. The 9-year-old Houma native and Oscar nominee will be honored alongside the likes of Oprah Winfrey at the ...