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Mar 11, 2022 · Director of Pixar’s “Turning Red” Domee Shi. (Cayce Clifford / For The Times) Director Domee Shi is excited as she discusses one of her favorite scenes from her first feature: when Meilin Lee,...
- tracy.brown@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Domee Shi (/ ˈ d oʊ m i /; [1] Chinese: 石之予; pinyin: Shí Zhīyǔ; born 8 September 1989) [2] [3] is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She has directed the short film Bao (2018) and the feature films Turning Red (2022) and the upcoming Elio (2025), becoming the first woman to direct a short film and then the first woman with sole director's credit on a feature film for Pixar.
Mar 11, 2022 · Turning Red director Domee Shi shares the inspiration behind the coming-of-age animated film. Known for her Oscar-winning short film Bao, Shi has gone on to break the glass ceiling, directing the first all-female creative leadership team for Pixar Animation Studios with a script co-written by Julia Cho.
- Katie Kim
Mar 8, 2022 · The Animated Life of Domee Shi. She was a storyboard artist at Pixar when she pitched an idea about a sentient dumpling and won an Oscar. Now she’s releasing Turning Red, a film about a Toronto...
Jan 6, 2023 · Her quirky tale of dorky 13-year-old Mei (Rosalie Chiang), who transforms into a giant red panda when she hits puberty, contains an artistic vision and controlled chaos uncharacteristic of a...
- Bill Desowitz
Mar 31, 2022 · Domee Shi: Oh yeah, for sure. The manga and anime that inspired Turning Red and my favourite manga growing up were definitely Sailor Moon, Inuyasha. Fruits basket was a big manga that I was obsessed with. Yeah, and when you watch the movie, you’re like, oh, that’s where she got it from.
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Mar 10, 2022 · In “ Turning Red,” director Domee Shi turned Pixar upside down in the pursuit of a 2D anime look for dorky 13-year-old Mei (Rosalie Chiang), who transforms into a giant red panda as part of...
