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Life, Animated

2015 USA / Duration: 91 mins
Directed by: Roger Ross Williams

Director Roger Ross Williams has brought Mountainfilm audiences a pair of memorable movies: Music by Prudence and God Loves Uganda, which won the festival’s Audience Award in 2013. Now, he returns with another incredible documentary, this one about a boy named Owen Suskind whose autism made it impossible for him to communicate when he was young. When he became upset, which happened frequently, the best avenue to calm Owen was to let him watch animated Disney films. One day, Owen’s father, the renowned political writer Ron Suskind, went into his 8-year-old son’s room and grabbed a puppet of Iago, the parrot in Aladdin. Doing his best impression of the Gilbert Gottfried-voiced character, the father asked his son, “Owen, how does it feel to be you?” And Owen answered, providing the first conversation the two ever had. The film takes it from there, showing how story, imagination and the magic of movies can forge a family. 

    • Roger Ross WilliamsDirector

Previous Tour Screenings

DateVenueLocation
Apr 14 2017Montrose Pavilion CenterMontrose, COWebsite
Jan 19 2017Trustees TheaterSavannah, GAWebsite
Aug 24 2016Wheeler Opera HouseAspen, COWebsite
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