This is the inside story of the Walt Disney animation studio’s metamorphosis during the years 1984-1994. A moribund studio producing such box-office flops as The Black Cauldron and The Fox and the Hound transforms itself into the powerhouse incubator of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, the most successful commercial products in movie history. Rich with boardroom backbiting and puckish creativity, this tale is illustrated with the wicked caricatures of the bosses that the talented animators drew to let off steam after executive power wrangles. The travails of some unforgettable characters are scored with the magical music permanently lodged in our brains. Waking Sleeping Beauty has princesses, princes, and villains, as well as love, laughter, and tears, just as all the best fairy tales—and Disney movies—should.
In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.
With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)
He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)
Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.
Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.
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