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.
Crew
Roger Ross Williams
Director, Producer
Ron Suskind
Book, Executive Producer
David Teague
Editor
Thomas Bergmann
Director of Photography
Robert DeBitetto
Executive Producer
Rob Sharenow
Executive Producer
Molly Thompson
Executive Producer
Julie Goldman
Producer
Lindsay Richardson
Associate Producer
Carolyn Hepburn
Co-Producer, Production Manager
Christopher Clements
Co-Producer
Philippe Sonrier
Animation Manager
Olivier Lescot
Animation
Mathieu Betard
Animation
Dylan Stark
Original Music Composer
T. Griffin
Original Music Composer
Marshall Curry
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