Benh Zeitlin Biography

Born and raised in New York City, Benjamin Harold Benh Zeitlin is an animator well known for directing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild. He’s also a composer and film maker who graduated from Wesleyan University. The Court 13 independent collection of filmmakers was co-founded by him in 2004 and the name was inspired by a neglected squash court in Wesleyan University that he and his friends once used as a filming location. Zeitlin and Eliza his younger sister moved to New Orleans while he was shooting Glory at Sea, his first film in 2008. Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zeitlin's first feature film which was adapted from a play called Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar, won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012; the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Deauville American Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival. The film also earned the the Seattle International Film Festival's Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director and the Los Angeles Film Festival's Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature. In 2012, at the Satellite Awards, Zeitlin was also given a Humanitarian Award for his work on the film. In particular, Zeitlin also co-composed the score and directed Beasts of the Southern Wild. Wendy, Zeitlin's feature film made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. The film, is a recreation of the classic Peter Pan story, and was adapted to screenplay by Zeitlin and his sister Eliza.

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