In a cartoon you can say stuff like, “She goes up to the mountain,” and everyone knows exactly what you mean.

Which begs one simple question: Why? Animation Opens You Up to New Ideas Let me say that again, National Geographic-home to some of the world’s premiere photographers and videographers-opened a documentary with animation. Guggenheim kicked off his dramatic, heart-wrenching documentary of Malala’s personal and then global struggle for women’s education and independence in her native Afghanistan with a cartoon. It was very important for me to get it right.” “I had this instinct that would help tell her story in a very profound way. Well, let’s just say that the film’s director, David Guggenheim, thought the narrative power of animation was so persuasive that he opened his documentary with animation: Not convinced that animation has the power to tell such a powerful story? The film tells the story of author, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Malala Yousafzai, and her struggle as a teenager against the Taliban for women’s education and independence in her native Afghanistan. The most notable recent example is the National Geographic and Fox Searchlight documentary, He Named Me Malala. This storytelling superpower to eliminate disbelief is why even some of the most dedicated documentary filmmakers in Hollywood have turned to animation.

In fact, these two-dimensional characters do more than talk-they speak to you with a depth that the real world has difficulty matching. Animation does many things well, but it has one unrivaled superpower: It obliterates doubt.īy its very nature, animation lulls your senses into a state of suspended disbelief with its flickering lullaby racing by at 24 frames per second.

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