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• Parents are cofounders of City Lore, a non-profit group that works to protect the urban history of New York City.
• While filming his senior thesis project at Wesleyan University, cofounded Court 13, an independent collection of filmmakers, named for the abandoned squash court they used for filming.
• Directed his first short film, Glory at Sea, in 2008.
• Began writing Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) while recovering from a car accident that left him with a broken pelvis.