Two of the creative forces behind Pixar’s latest success are being promoted within Pixar Animation Studios. On Tuesday, it was reported that turns red Director Dom Shea and producer Lindsey Collins will take on new leadership roles within the company. Shi was promoted to Vice President of Creative, and will join directors Andrew Stanton, Peter Sohn and Dan Scanlon in directing the studio’s filmmakers as part of the Pixar Braintrust. Meanwhile, Collins will now serve as Senior Vice President of Development, where she will lead the Pixar development group for features and live streaming.
Shi started at Pixar as an apprentice, before working as a story artist inside outside and work on it The Incredibles Good Dinosaur 2 And the Toy Story 4. She won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for her 2018 short film Pixar baobefore appearing for the first time in a long directing with turns red She became the first woman to work as a solo director in a Pixar film.
Meanwhile, Collins has been with the studio for nearly 25 years, working on projects like Wall-E And the find my league. Previously, she served as Vice President of Development, where she helped launch Pixar’s SparksShorts program.
“As I think about my 25 years at Pixar, the pride and gratitude I have are only outweighed by the excitement I feel while taking on this new role,” Collins said in a statement. “Pixar has always been a place that seeks to delight and surprise audiences, and I am delighted to be able to expand on that legacy and help shape what comes next, surrounded by some of the most diverse, unique and inspiring filmmakers and voices working today.”
turns red It was such a huge success for Pixar and Disney when it debuted last month that it reportedly gave the premiere of the first movie in Disney+ history. The film follows Melin “Mei” Lee (Rosali Chang), a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl who grew up in Toronto in the early 2000s and begins puberty, literally “betraying” her in the form of a giant red panda. When excited or tense. The film previously made headlines for having the first all-female leadership team within Pixar.
Collins explained in a previous interview with ComicBook.com. “These were all shared experiences at our level. So it was something that, I think, allowed Domi and our writer and the rest of the team to be really bold, and not guess those choices in the story. Through massive iterations, we didn’t temper it internally by mistake. I think that’s Really cool, that we had a very different tone to the movie, and it was a tone totally backed up by the shared experience, frankly.”
turns red Now available to stream exclusively on Disney+.
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