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'Beasts Of The Southern Wild' Director Benh Zeitlin Confirms Next Film Will be Totally Bonkers Sep 5th 2013, 20:23, by Drew Taylor One of the best underdog stories in movies last year happened off the big screen, with Benh Zeitlin's debut feature "Beasts of the Southern Wild," a tiny-budgeted indie with a bizarre premise and non-actors in all of the major roles, dazzling audiences from Park City, Utah to Cannes, ultimately picking up four Academy Award nominations, including a Best Picture nod and a Best Director nomination for Zeitlin. Of course the question ultimately arises: what next? How do you follow such a strong debut? Well, if you're Zeitlin, you go even weirder. In a lengthy profile of 20 exciting young filmmakers in The New York Times, Zeitlin is asked about his follow-up to "Beasts of Southern Wild," explaining that it's going to be even wilder than 'Beasts.' "The new film is about a young girl who gets kidnapped onto a hidden ecosystem where a tribal war is raging over a form of pollen that breaks the relationship between aging and time," Zeitlin told the paper. "It follows a friendship-love... Media files: Ben-Zeitlin-beasts-of-the-southern-wild.jpg (image/jpeg)

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