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Benh Zeitlin
American filmmaker (born 1982)
Benjamin Harold Zeitlin (;[3] born October 14, 1982)[4] is an American filmmaker, best known for directing and co-writing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which he received two Academy Award nominations.
Early life
Zeitlin was born in Manhattan and raised in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, and in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.[5] He is a graduate of Hastings High School[6] and Wesleyan University.[7] He was born to writers and folklorists Mary Amanda Dargan and Steven Joel Zeitlin, who founded the NYC non-profit cultural organization City Lore.[1][8][9] His father, who is Jewish, spent most of his childhood in Brazil; his mother comes from a rural, Protestant background in Darlington, South Carolina.[10][11][12] His younger sister is screenwriter and artist Eliza Zeitlin.[2]
Career
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