For Benh Zeitlin, inspiration struck in the darkness. It wasn’t pitch black, mind you. There was the glow from the big screen in front of him, flickering at 22 frames a second. But other than that, ...

On Thursday we learned who and what has been nominated for an Oscar, and among the nominees is Benh Zeitlin, director of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Zeitlin is also a Sunnyside, Queens native. He ...

Director Benh Zeitlin, left, and actress Quvenzhane Wallis discuss a scene on the Louisiana set of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' It was inevitable. Given the incredible amount of ink the locally set, ...

The chicken chase later became the subject of Benh’s college entrance essay, while the pig roasts would anticipate the exuberant crayfish boils in Beasts. Eventually, on the advice of a summer camp ...

Benh Zeitlin was always going to take his time. Seven years ago, his dazzling first feature “Beasts of the Southern Wild” became the breakout story of the year, premiering to raves and a Grand Jury ...

If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I never would have thought it possible to make a fairy tale out of Hurricane Katrina, but that’s exactly what first-time director Benh Zeitlin has done in Beasts ...

Thanks to the generosity of the Alamo Drafthouse, SXSW is hosting two benefit screenings on April 29, for ailing filmmaker Benh Zeitlin. Why? Short filmmaker Benh Zietlin was in Austin, Texas March ...

The end of Oscar season is both an upper and a downer. As tiresome as the rituals of self-congratulation may be, the events nonetheless create a sense of community among artists and executives. For a ...

Sprawling on the edge of a levee along a deadened twist of the Lower Mississippi is a compound that, from 1894 to 1999, was the only leprosy hospital on the U.S. mainland. It’s late summer and, at my ...