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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 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...
- The Inner 13-Year Old. “Everyone had to tap their inner 13-year-olds to capture the style that Director Domee Shi wanted,” says Turning Red Producer Lindsey Collins.
- Meilin Lee. Exuberant, ambitious, and over-achieving, Chinese-Canadian Meilin Lee is a middle school force of nature. With her posse of loyal besties, Mei excels at school and obsesses over their fave boy band, 4*Town.
- Red Panda Mei. Eight feet tall, wild, raging with hormones, fun-loving and destructive, Red Panda Mei represents Mei at her most emotional, messy, and true self.
- Ming Lee. Elegantly turned out and poised at all times, Ming is the devoted keeper of the Lee Family Temple in Toronto’s Chinatown. Ming takes her duties as spiritual leader and local entrepreneur quite seriously, but the role she prizes most is that of mother to her precious only daughter, Meilin.
Domee Shi based the adorable short about an empty nester Chinese mom who creates a living, breathing, giggling dumpling on her own family.
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...
- Bill Desowitz
Domee Shi’s feature directorial debut, “Turning Red,” is a coming-of-age movie about a Chinese Canadian girl and follows her Oscar-winning animated short “B...
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Mar 31, 2022 · Meet Domee Shi, The Oscar-Winning Director Behind Pixar’s Turning Red! “Domee Shi: I remember not being the only Asian in my class or friend group. I was around people from all, and that was just such a cool detail about Toronto that I wanted to share with the world.” Check out our chat with #TurningRed director Domee Shi! Share this: Like this:
