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Life, animated / A&E Indiefilms presents a Motto Pictures production ; a film by Roger Ross Williams ; produced by Julie Goldman ; directed & produced by Roger Ross Williams.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: DOG359 | DogwoofPublication details: [London] : Dogwoof, c2016.Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Original animation, Mac Guff ; cinematography by Tom Bergmann ; edited by David Teague.
Cast: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried.Summary: At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son\'s puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked \'What\'s it like to be you?\' Suddenly, Owen responded to his father using dialogue from the movie ... Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world through Disney animated films. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with vérité scene\'s from Owen\'s life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar and Ariel create a context for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality--Container.
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3 Day Loan Clonmel Library DVD collection CLN/AV27 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30026000072172

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016.

Based on the book by Ron Suskind.

Special features include: Commentary with the Suskind family ; Five deleted scence ; Animated short film Land of the lost sidekicks.

Original animation, Mac Guff ; cinematography by Tom Bergmann ; edited by David Teague.

Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried.

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind suddenly stopped speaking and disappeared into autism. Almost four years passed and the only thing that seemed to engage Owen were Disney films. Then one day his father donned one of his son\'s puppets--Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin--and asked \'What\'s it like to be you?\' Suddenly, Owen responded to his father using dialogue from the movie ... Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world through Disney animated films. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with vérité scene\'s from Owen\'s life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar and Ariel create a context for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality--Container.

Exempt.

DVD ; region 2.

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