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    The Business

    Unconventional Filmmaking: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

    Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin on how "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is a lesson in unconventional filmmaking.

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    By Kim Masters • Nov 12, 2012 • 28m Listen

    Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and his colleagues approach filmmaking like it's a community art project. Their successful indie film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, is a lesson in how their methods could yield the adoration of the mainstream film industry. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Palm d’Or at Cannes. Now many see it as a likely Oscar winner.

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    2 stories
    1. 0:00

      The Hollywood News Banter

      Kim Masters and John Horn, film writer for the Los Angeles Times, banter about some of this week's top Hollywood news stories.

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      7 min
    2. 6:31

      'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Filmmaker

      Benh Zeitlin doesn't have an MBA. In fact, he doesn't even know what one is. He's an artist -- a writer, director, composer-- who spent his early 20's looking for a way to live cheaply so that he could make his art.

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      22 min
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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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    In this episode

    2 stories
    1. 0:007 min

      The Hollywood News Banter

    2. 6:3122 min

      'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Filmmaker

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