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Life, animated /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: A & E IndieFilms, Mac Guff (Firm) (Animator), Orchard (Firm)
Other Authors: Bergmann, Tom (director of photography.), Griffin, T. (composer (expression)), Stark, Dylan (composer (expression)), Suskind, Ron
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Sausalito, California : Ro*co Films Educational, 2016.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Disney, Walt, > 1901-1966 > Characters.
Suskind, Owen.
Suskind, Ron > Film adaptations.
Suskind, Ron > Family.
Suskind, Owen
Suskind, Ron
Disney, Walt, > 1901-1966
Animated films > Psychological aspects.
Autistic children > United States > Biography.
Autistic children > United States > Language.
Parents of autistic children > United States > Biography.
Enfants autistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Enfants autistes > États-Unis > Langage.
Parents d'enfants autistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Parents of autistic children
Families
Characters and characteristics
Autistic children > Language
Autistic children
Animated films > Psychological aspects
Boys
Hope
Kinship
Love
United States
Streaming video.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Streaming videos.
documentary film.
Nonfiction films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Biographies
Biographical films
Animated films
Documentary films
Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Films biographiques.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
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.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 hr., 32 min.) : sound, color
Playing Time:01:32:04
Format:Streaming video file.
Audience:Rating: PG; for thematic elements, and language including a suggestive reference CHV rating: G.
Awards:Nominated 2017 Academy Awards, USA, Best Documentary Feature
Won 2016 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, Best Documentary Feature
Won 2018 News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Best Documentary
Won 2018 Master of Art Film Festival, Documentary in Art for Children
Won 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Documentary
Production Credits:Original animation, Mac Guff ; original music, Dylan Stark, T. Griffin ; score producer, T. Griffin ; director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editor, David Teague.