Life Animated

USA / Color / 91' / 2016

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.

Roger Ross Williams

Cast & Crew

direction: Roger Ross Williams
Screenplay: Roger Ross Williams, David Teague
Cinematography: Tom Bergmann
Editing: David Teague

Film Cast: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind
producer:: Julie Goldman
original language: English

Filmography

Land of the Lost Sidekicks (2016)
Blackface (2015)
Gospel of Intolerance (2015)
God Loves Uganda (2013)
Music by Prudence (2010)