ENC: Life Animated (With Q&A)

The Bioscope is proud to welcome back The Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival.

Tickets R55

Life Animated (2016)

Directed by: Roger Ross Williams

92min

Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of colour. A fantasy? A nightmare? This Oscar nominated film is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. A silent autistic boy, Owen memorized Disney movies to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive. Co-Producer Carolyn Hepburn travels courtesy of the American Film Showcase

(AFS) and will attend screenings in Jhb and CT