Benh Zeitlin

Awards

Won 1 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award Award

Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 1 won

• ★ 2012 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award Won Beasts of the Southern Wild

Caméra d'Or 1 won

• ★ 2012 Caméra d'Or Won Beasts of the Southern Wild

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Born in New York City and raised in Sunnyside, Queens and then Westchester County, Benh Zeitlin began his career as a filmmaker at the tender age of 6 when he and a friend made a Batman movie. He continued making films as a child before attending Wesleyan University, where he majored in film. After graduation, Benh spent a summer in Prague working with a prominent animation artist. Returning to the U.S., he worked in a private school in Manhattan helping elementary students create short films.