Reel Lives is a New York and South Africa-based non-profit filmmaking program for marginalized, refugee and war-affected youth. Groups from both NY and South Africa made trips to see the film and were joined virtually afterwards by Producer Josh Penn for a live Q&A via Google Hangouts. Excerpts of the Q&A between the Reel Lives participants in South Africa, Beasts Outreach Coordinator Clara and Producer Josh Penn are watchable above along with footage from their trip!
Josh spoke about where the title of Beasts came from, the father-daughter relationship between Hushpuppy and Wink, finding Quvenzhané Wallis in Houma and running lines with Dwight Henry in the bakery late into the night.
