The New Yorker calls it “a revolution” – an “expression of post-affluent America” that is both “happy” and ”inspired by poetry and dream.”

Beyond its critical successes with reviewers and at Sundance and Cannes, most people I know who have been lucky enough to see Beast of the Southern Wild agree that they’ve never seen anything quite like it.

So much the better that three RISD alums – Annie Evelyn 99 FD/MFA 07, Sophie Kosofsky 06 FD and director Behn Zeitlin’s sister Eliza Zeitlin 07 SC – were involved in making this amazing movie. Read more about the RISD connections here.