IAN is animated adventure of a disabled boy, and how he longs to play with his friends, but he can’t. It is the winner of the Oscar qualifying prize at LA Shorts International Film Festival However, you must know that Abel Goldfarb’s award winning animation ‘Ian’ is based on a true story of a young boy battling bullying and disability loneliness.
Ian was born with cerebral palsy. All he wants is to make friends, although it seems impossible to achieve when discrimination and bullying keep him away from his beloved playground. However, this young boy is determined and won’t give up easily.
The film is based on Ian, a young Argentinian boy who suffers from cerebral palsy. He talks with the help of a machine. Ian receives constant teasing during visits to his rehabilitation center by children from a nearby school. His mother went to the school to tackle this issue and found the school had no tools to teach the children that bullying is wrong, so she wrote a book aimed at children, about a disabled boy. Penguin published this inspiring book, which is simply titled Ian.
