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Sundance Documentaries Showcase Enhanced Storytelling Through Animation

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Gregg Goldstein What brings documentaries to life? For an increasing number of them, it’s colorful characters — literally. Animation is making docs more accessible to a wider audience, allowing filmmakers to dramatize scenes that can’t be shown with footage and bringing them into once-unimagined awards categories.No film has demonstrated this more clearly than Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s refugee saga “Flee.” The Neon/Participant release made Oscar shortlists for both documentary feature and international feature film, won a Gotham Award for documentary and Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary.

But it also scored a Golden Globe nom and Boston, Chicago and Detroit critics group award wins for animated feature, paving the way for an Academy Award nomination in that category as well.

The critical success of this Danish/French/Swedish/Norwegian co-production is igniting interest in other animated docs at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, but this hybrid genre is far from new.

It’s long been used for shorts including the Oscar-shortlisted “Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker,” yet the cost and manpower involved have made animation rare in this low-budget arena.One of the earliest, Winsor McCay’s 1918 short about a WWI ship bombing, “The Sinking of the Lusitania,” required 25,000 drawings that had to be photographed one at a time.

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