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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
Julie Goldman
Producer
Dylan Stark
Original Music Composer
Robert DeBitetto
Executive Producer
Lindsay Richardson
Associate Producer
Carolyn Hepburn
Production Manager
Olivier Lescot
Animation
Philippe Sonrier
Animation Manager

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