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Life, Animated

75 %|Jul 1, 2016|Documentary

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.

Featured Crew

Roger Ross Williams
Director
Dylan Stark
Original Music Composer
Ron Suskind
Executive Producer
Christopher Clements
Co-Producer
Ron Suskind
Book
Philippe Sonrier
Animation Manager
Carolyn Hepburn
Co-Producer
Thomas Bergmann
Director of Photography

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