Above all else, this film is a love letter to the joyful, resilient people of southern Louisiana and to the home they hold so dear. Dwight Henry owned a bakery in New Orleans before playing the role of Wink, and the unforgettable Quvenzhané Wallis was only five years old when she auditioned to play Hushpuppy. For a country with a GDP of about $12 billion USD, this is an unfathomable cost to rebuild. But Wink loves Hushpuppy more than anything, and he’s hard on her because he’s afraid he won’t be around for long. Hushpuppy teaches us that we can stand up to such agents of chaos. I suppose you could interpret this in a number of ways, but to me, aurochs have to represent fossil fuels. Friday 5 June, 8:00pm on NITV (repeats 12:25am). A lot of the people who were lucky enough to evacuate, maybe most of them, went back. These teachings on cause-and-effect are delivered with a biblical sense of doom that lights a fire in the little girl’s imagination. Until next time, I’m Forrest Brown. We humans are a resilient bunch, and we’ve so far done a pretty good job of recovering from everything history has thrown our way. None of the actors you see in the movie were professionals—they’re real members of the community in Louisiana, which actually makes them better than professionals. Mark Reconciliation Week with these Australian films at SBS On Demand. (Fact checkers please pipe up, but this might be the first debut feature to bear an 'Auroch lab facility’ credit). Be sure to hit subscribe if you enjoyed today’s show, and leave us a nice review on Apple Podcasts if you feel so inclined. These storms will be beastly—pun intended—and we should be putting in work now to develop the emotional resilience we’ll need to face them head-on and recover from them afterwards. The researchers who published this paper got kind of lucky. Their paper started out as a study of low-income adults enrolled in community colleges around the US. A lot of the Christians in my life growing up tried to compare the destruction of New Orleans to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. Hushpuppy lives with Wink in a trailer home on stilts, and when she’s not at school, she spends her time playing in the woods around their house and learning lessons from Wink. The Big One or God or climate change or whatever you want to call it destroys the Bath Tub, and what does Hushpuppy do? Director Benh Zeitlin and his production studio, Court 13, made the entire movie in a southern Louisiana town called Montegut, of the quickly eroding Terrebonne Parish. When I watched interviews with members of Court 13 to prepare for this episode, I got the sense that they were just as much a crew of pirates as they were a crew of filmmakers. By all accounts, Zeitlin adapted the character to suit newcomer Wallis’ temperament, and the film lives and dies on her stoic posturing and jaw-jutting warrior stance. But Beasts of the Southern Wild is a direct rebuttal to that line of thinking, in my mind. Hushpuppy describes it best: “One day, the storm’s gonna blow, the ground’s gonna sink and the water’s gonna rise up so high ain’t gonna be no Bathtub, just a whole bunch of water…But me and my daddy, we stay right here. If one piece busts – even the smallest piece – the entire universe will get busted". One night, Hushpuppy and Wink get into a fight, and Hushpuppy hits Wink in the chest. I don’t know if it gets more authentic than that. We didn’t do this to make money, but it is expensive to maintain our website, buy movies and books, and access other research materials. But those who did go back helped rebuild their city, and today, New Orleans is doing okay. Perhaps you did too if you ever watched any Fox News around this time. I think back to March 2011 when a horrible earthquake and tsunami killed hundreds of people in Japan and nearly caused a nuclear meltdown. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a 2012 film from director Benh Zeitlin and Court 13 Arts. “Stories are light. And she sees herself as being in the same position as cavemen: We look back on them and understand them by their paintings. Hushpuppy’s worldview dictates that "the whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. Stories for Earth relies on contributions from our listeners and readers to produce high quality, in-depth content. A free movie collection curated by Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley. They seemed totally immersed in the process, but they’re hardly the only ones. And maybe, if our convictions are strong enough, we can win. Reviewed at the 2012 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: "Everybody loses the thing they’re made by," warns Benh Zeitlin’s extraordinary debut feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild. Beasts of the Southern Wild was not made the way most Hollywood films are made. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother. Hell, she goes back—everyone does, including the dying Wink. Doing so will help us reach more listeners who could benefit from our message. Wink and his friends build a pipe bomb and successfully destroy the levee, draining the Bathtub just before FEMA comes to force everyone to evacuate to a hospital on the mainland.