| Description |
1 online resource (1 hr., 32 min.) : sound, color |
| Series |
Academic Video Online |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016 |
| Credits |
Original animation, Mac Guff ; original music, Dylan Stark, T. Griffin ; score producer, T. Griffin ; director of photography, Tom Bergmann ; editor, David Teague |
| Performer |
Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind |
| Notes |
Rating: PG; for thematic elements, and language including a suggestive reference CHV rating: G |
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Streaming video file |
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In English |
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Description from landing page (Film Platform, viewed November 16, 2016) |
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Nominated 2017 Academy Awards, USA, Best Documentary Feature |
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Won 2016 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, Best Documentary Feature |
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Won 2018 News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Best Documentary |
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Won 2018 Master of Art Film Festival, Documentary in Art for Children |
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Won 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Documentary |
| Subject |
Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 -- Characters
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Suskind, Owen.
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Suskind, Ron -- Film adaptations
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Suskind, Ron -- Family
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Suskind, Owen |
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Suskind, Ron |
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 |
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Animated films -- Psychological aspects
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Autistic children -- United States -- Biography
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Autistic children -- United States -- Language
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Parents of autistic children -- United States -- Biography
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Parents of autistic children
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Families
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Characters and characteristics
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Autistic children -- Language
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Autistic children
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Animated films -- Psychological aspects
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Boys
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Hope
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Kinship
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Love
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United States
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Streaming video
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documentary film.
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Nonfiction films
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Film adaptations
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Feature films
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Biographies
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Biographical films
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Animated films
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Documentary films
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Biographical films.
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Documentary films.
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Feature films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Films biographiques.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Bergmann, Tom, director of photography.
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Goldman, Julie, film producer.
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Griffin, T., composer (expression)
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Stark, Dylan, composer (expression)
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Teague, David, editor of moving image work.
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Williams, Roger Ross, film director, film producer.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Suskind, Ron.
Life, animated
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A & E IndieFilms
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Mac Guff (Firm), animator.
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Motto Pictures, production company.
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Orchard (Firm)
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