indieWIRE’s Peter Knegt reports on a few new developments on the documentary side of things at the upcoming Toronto fest, chief of which is the addition of a further five titles to the feature doc lineup.
Three of the five will be having their world premiere at Toronto, including Bob Richman’s “Ahead of Time,” a study of the life of venerable Brooklyn-born intellectural Ruth Gruber, and Icelandic production “The Sunshine Boy,” which details a mother’s coming to terms with her son’s autism.
The film, however, that I suspect most eyes will be on is “Waking Sleeping Beauty,” the directorial debut from esteemed, Oscar-nominated Disney producer Don Hahn (“The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast”), which covers a section of recent cinematic history held dear by many:
This isn’t a fairy tale, but rather the true story of how the Disney animation team went from stagnation in the mid-1980s to a startling rebirth with a staggering output of hits – Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and more – over a ten year period. Director Don Hahn, who was a key contributor on many of these works, brings an insider’s perspective to the film.