Beasts of the Southern Wild

First Trailer for Sundance Prize Winner, Beasts of The Southern Wild

If you followed anything about the Sundance Film Festival this year, you surely heard about Beasts of the Southern Wild, the undisputed breakout hit of the festival. Even before it won the Grand Jury Prize in the narrative feature category-- pretty much the highest award they can give-- Beasts was the film that every single person couldn't stop talking about, the one that when someone asked what your favorite film of the festival was, almost everyone would cite first.

"Beasts," "The Surrogate" aim for post-Sundance success (Reuters)

Reuters - Dramas "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "The Surrogate" won big at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, giving the event a burst of energy after early movies with grim sagas and star names failed to impress critics.

"Beasts," "The House I Live In" win top awards at Sundance

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "The House I Live in" won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, making them likely favorites for independent movie audiences in 2012.

"Beasts of the Southern Wild" rips through Sundance (omg!)

omg! - PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 22 (TheWrap.com) - A storm blew into Sundance's Eccles Theatre on Friday afternoon, and it had nothing to do with the snow that fell all night on Park City. This storm was a bracing and confounding Delta drama called "Beasts of the Southern Wild" -- a movie, you could say, for people who think "Treme" doesn't have enough gumbo, "Take Shelter" could use more apocalypse, "Where the Wild Things Are" isn't wild enough and "When the Levees Broke" could have done with a few prehistoric creatures rampaging through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...