Sundance Grand Jury Prize Champion Monsters in the Southern Wild Will Debut This June

Film fanatics, bear in mind: Benh Zeitlin's highly famous Sundance '12 favorite Monsters in the Southern Wild will theaters. Fox Searchlight, which acquired first-time feature director Zeitlin's pic in the fest, will release the film in limited release on June 29 hit the jump for just about any full synopsis and appear within the festival award champion. The bayou-set film was the indie discovery to depart Park City this year, and acquired the fest's Grand Jury Prize for drama. The magical realism-flavored drama should lead to great counter-programming throughout blockbuster season -- no less than, you can be positive Fox Searchlight's wanting so. The synopsis: In the forgotten but defiant bayou community stay in the comfort around the world having a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl can be obtained round the fringe of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and amazing imagination, she thinks natural world is at balance while using world until a fierce storm changes her reality. Wanting to repair the dwelling of her world to have the ability to save her ailing father and sinking home, this small hero must learn to survive easy catastrophes of epic proportions. Below: From Sundance, a meet-the-filmmakers vid with Zeitlin explaining his project and youthful star, Quvenzhan Wallis. Expect the state trailer later on from Fox.