<Li> Nicholas Clark as Sticks </Li> <Li> Henry D. Coleman as Peter T </Li> <P> The film's fictional setting, "Isle de Charles Doucet", known to its residents as the Bathtub, was inspired by several isolated and independent fishing communities threatened by erosion, hurricanes and rising sea levels in Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, most notably the rapidly eroding Isle de Jean Charles . It was filmed in Terrebonne Parish town Montegut . </P> <P> The film was shot on 16mm film, and director Benh Zeitlin created the production with a small professional crew and dozens of local residents in and around Montegut, Louisiana . The filmmakers call themselves "Court 13" and are the first credited at the end of the film . At her audition, Quvenzhané Wallis (who was five years old, though the casting call had been for girls between six and nine) impressed the filmmakers with her reading ability, tremendous scream and ability to burp on command, all of which are used in the film . Dwight Henry, who plays Wink, was not looking for an acting job and had no acting experience . As he explained in an interview with the San Diego Reader: </P>

Where was beasts of the southern wild filmed