well, this happened.

I just got back from Sundance, where I went for the premiere of the movie I moved to New Orleans to make with the people who have kept me here. It's called Beasts of the Southern Wild. The Hollywood Reporter has called it "one of the most striking films to ever debut at Sundance," and the New York Times said it was "among the best films to play at the festival in two decades," but my two favorite reviews have been from Variety and especially the Huffington Post. The movie got bought for distribution by Fox Searchlight, so it almost certainly will coming to a theater somewhere near you (early guesses have it for an August-September-ish release, but who really knows). I am just over the fucking moon, I can't even begin to tell you. There's no trailer yet, but maybe my picture (that's me in the khaki jumpsuit) on the front page of today's Times Arts section will suffice instead. Wow.