Abigail Disney Carves Out Her Own Name

The award-winning filmmaker talks about growing up in the shadows of her legendary family and how she's championing social change through film.

Abigail Disney is the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, who, with his brother Walt, founded one of the best known iconography in entertainment and juggernaut in business.  I don't know how common it is, but she is yet another person working to establish her own name, in the face of a larger-than-life family name.  We can empathize with her dilemma and struggle: She apparently gravitated to social and existential themes, which were antithetical to the highly cheerful Disney world.  Plus, this world must've been "uncool" within her Jean-Paul Sartre circles.