Articles tagged with "benh-zeitlin"

I don’t know any other profession where you get to say, “Everybody I’ve ever known: We’re going to go here and we’re gonna tell this story and live in this wild way for three months, and then somewhere down the line, at the end of it, we’ll have something we created to show the world.”

Hushpuppy is larger than life. For most of the beginning of the film she treks around in orange underwear, a white tank top, and rain boots. Her hair is never combed and we never see her take a bath.