Sentence:  Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism <WSD>pieced together</WSD> from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.