Written by Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin and directed by Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild is an American fantasy drama film based on a one-act play Juicy and Delicious by the same writers of this film. The film is set within a community detached from the rest of the world by an extensive levee, the Bathtub, and it revolves around the life of six-year old heroic Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). She lives with Wink (Dwight Henry), a bad-tempered, unhealthy, alcoholic father who treats Hushpuppy as a grown-up in preparation of his passing away. The two do not live together; the father lives in a dilapidated hut while his daughter lives in a trailer nearby. When her father disappears and later returns wearing a hospital gown, a series of
