Stanford Night at SIFF - "Life, Animated"
Event Details
05:30PM - 09:00PM
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The Event
The evening starts with an exclusive Stanford Club of Washington reception including wine and hors d'oeuvres at 5:30. We'll then migrate to the Uptown for a screening of "Life, Animated"
5:30-6:30: reception with director @ SIFF Film Center (in the Seattle Center Near the N-E Corner of Key Arena)
6:45-8:30: movie screening @ Siff Cinema Uptown (511 Queen Anne Avenue N.)
Life, Animated Film Synopsis
Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare?
LIFE, ANIMATED is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn’t speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song.
Until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.
This documentary, is based on Ron Suskind’s best-selling book, “Life Animated: a story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism.” Directed by Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams, and produced by the acclaimed Julie Goldman, the documentary premiered January 23rd, 2016, at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won director Roger Ross Williams the Sundance Directing Award: U.S. Documentary.
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Director Biography
Roger Ross Williams was the first African-American director to win an Academy Award® for the documentary short Music by Prudence. Life, Animated is his second feature documentary after the critically acclaimed God Loves Uganda. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where he won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award.
