Waking Sleeping Beauty Hollywood Documentary movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Cast:Howard Ashman, Roy Disney,
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Glen Keane, John Musker
Director:Don Hahn
Writer: Patrick Pacheco (screenplay)
Language: English
Runtime: 86 min
Release Date: 26 March 2010 (USA)
Country: USA
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Genre:Documentary
Plot Details:Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating tensions… and one of the most extraordinary creative periods in animation history.
Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider, key players at Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation department during the mid1980s, offer a behind—the—magic glimpse of the turbulent times the Animation Studio was going through and the staggering output of hits that followed over the next ten years. Artists polarized between the hungry young innovators and the old guard who refused to relinquish control, mounting tensions due to a string of box office flops, and warring studio heads create the backdrop for this fascinating story told with a unique and candid perspective from those that were there.
Through interviews, internal memos, home movies, and a cast of characters featuring Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Roy Disney, alongside an amazing array of talented artists that includes Don Bluth, John Lasseter, and Tim Burton, Waking Sleeping Beauty shines a light on Disney Animation’s darkest hours, greatest joys and its improbable renaissance.
Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating tensions… and one of the most extraordinary creative periods in animation history. Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider, key players at Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation department during the mid1980s, offer a behind—the—magic glimpse of the turbulent times the Animation Studio was going through and the staggering output of hits that followed over the next ten years. Artists polarized between the hungry young innovators and the old guard who refused to relinquish control, mounting tensions due to a string of box office flops, and warring studio heads create the backdrop for this fascinating story told with a unique and candid perspective from those that were there. Through interviews, internal memos, home movies, and a cast of characters featuring Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Roy Disney, alongside an amazing array of talented artists that includes Don Bluth, John Lasseter, and Tim Burton, Waking Sleeping Beauty shines a light on Disney Animation’s darkest hours, greatest joys and its improbable renaissance.
Peter Schneider & Don Hahn Interview:
“Waking Sleeping Beauty” is a terrific new documentary on the tumultuous, incredibly creative decade(1984-1994) at Disney, when animation changed forever. And Producer Peter Schneider and Director Don Hahn were two of the people who changed it, and who witnessed the transformation process first hand. It was the time when “Beauty and the Beast,” “Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “The Lion King” altered the landscape of the Magic Kingdom forever, making it relevant and winning Oscar nominations and Golden Globe Awards to boot.
“Waking Sleeping Beauty” is comprised totally of contemporary archival footage of the behind-the-scenes workings of Disney, a place that had here-to-fore been off-limits to scrutiny of any kind. It’s Hahn’s and Schneider’s triumph in that they got permission to depict this unseen, wholly corporate world, in a dark, scary and entertaining (the cartoon clips are divine) doc that is surely going to be remembered at Oscar time next year.
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