Sundance’s big feature award winner in 2012 is a post-Katrina-apocolypse-meets-Beyond-Thunderdome-meets-Newt & Ripley & pre-historic-beasts-as-aliens in the swamps of the Bayou-south.

Did you get all that?

Said another way…gritty-magical-apocolype-realism that is totally unique and unforgettable. Filmmaker, Benh Zeitlin, has succeeded in creating a film that even the most hardened film-buffs will be asking, “how does someone even THINK of a story like that” and - even more so - “How did they SHOOT that?” (The reported sale price to Fox Searchlight for $2 million seems like it wouldn’t even cover the costs to produce the film!)

And…write this down…Quvenzhane Wallis, as the child-hero, “Hushpuppy” - is an early Oscar favorite next year…Her performance is off-the-charts can’t miss.