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Mar 12, 2022 · Director Domee Shi explains how Pixar teamed up with Disney Hong Kong and Turning Red’s songwriters and composer to produce the movie’s ending song.
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May 14, 2024 · The meaning behind the red panda. Whenever Mei feels an intense emotion, whether it be anger, excitement, or sadness, she turns into a ginormous red panda. While red pandas originate from China, where Mei’s ancestors come from, the animal itself doesn’t have much cultural significance.
Mar 8, 2022 · Shi’s films continue that tradition, drawing on fairy tales and her Chinese-Canadian culture to excavate her characters’ personal evolutions through magical, monstrous physical transformations.
Domee Shi based the adorable short about an empty nester Chinese mom who creates a living, breathing, giggling dumpling on her own family.
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.
Jun 16, 2018 · The Chinese Canadian filmmaker took inspiration from her own life as a child of immigrants when crafting the short, a story Shi first started working on over four years ago. “I was digging...
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Feb 7, 2023 · Meilin strolling through the film’s Chinatown, for which Domee and the creative team found their inspiration in the Chinatowns of San Francisco, Oakland and Toronto, where there was a large community from Taishan, China
