L.A. Film Festival: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' screens tonight

After wowing audiences at the Sundance Film Festival in January and Cannes in May, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" will have its first Southern California screening tonight at the L.A. Film Festival. "Beasts," as much a love letter to a dying part of Louisiana culture — the typically impoverished families living in quickly disappearing land near the state's southern tip — as a magically realistic look at a young daughter's fierce love for her dying father,will be released in theaters by Fox Searchlight on June 27. So if you don't have a ticket to tonight's gala, there's not long to...

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/06/la-film-festival-beasts-of-southern-wild-to-screen-tonight.html

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