Producer Peter Schneider and writer/reporter Patrick Pacheco discuss their new documentary “Waking Sleeping Beauty.” The film tells the story of the artistic rebirth of the Walt Disney Animation Studios in the late 1980's.
Patrick Pacheco Theater Journalist, Los Angeles Times
Peter Schneider Producer
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