Lucy Alibar adapted her stage play Juicy and Delicious into her first feature film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, alongside director Behn Zeitlin.
Beasts was distributed by Fox Searchlight. Beasts of the Southern Wild won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the Humanitas Prize, and was nominated for a BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She wrote and produced Troop Zero for Amazon and adapted Delia Owens's bestselling novel, Where the Crawdads Sing (premiering in July 0f 2022) for 3000/Sony.