Benh Zeitlin's mystical Beasts of the Southern Wild wowed audiences and critics at the Sundance Film Festival and was scooped up by Fox Searchlight. Excerpts from the film are being screened at the Jazz & Heritage Foundation's Sync Up Cinema event at NOMA on Tuesday. And today, Fox Searchlight announced it will release the film June 25.
Zeitlin also created the impressive short film Glory at Sea.