Benh Zeitlin’s remarkable Beasts of the Southern Wild was the only non-documentary that went on to the final round for IFP’s Gotham Independent Film Audience Award contest. The other nominees:
Artifcat (Jared Leto doc)
Invisible War (rape in the military)
Burn (about Detroit firefighters)
Once in a Lullaby: The PS 22 Chorus Story (about the group getting to sing at the Oscars)
Tough lineup I’d say. Beasts of the Southern Wild has a way of really winning people over and almost always wins something everywhere it competes. It’s truly astonishing to see a film hang on for that long even when it isn’t making that much money. This one really IS the “little movie that could.”