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Oct 13, 2022 · As part of UC San Diego’s commemoration of Latinx Heritage Month, acclaimed producer Yvett Merino is visiting campus on Oct. 28 to deliver a celebratory keynote address.
Jan 19, 2022 · Tickets for Behind the Scenes of Disney’s Encanto (2021) will be available as follows: Members: Purchase tickets online beginning Wednesday, January 19 at noon. Public (non-members): Remaining tickets available online beginning Friday, January 21 at noon. All participants must sign up by 5pm PT on Tuesday, January 25.
Yvett Merino is a film producer who served as a main producer for the film Disney's Encanto. As producer, she won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, with Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Clark Spencer.
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When Encantodirectors Byron Howard and Jared Bush pitched Castro Smith the concept of the film — about the one person in a Colombian family who doesn’t possess magical powers — the story immediately resonated with her on multiple levels. “Immediately my heart sort of exploded,” recalls Castro Smith. “I related so much to that feeling of being a you...
“I always call these animated films tiny little miracles,” says Merino, who produced Encantowith Clark Spencer. “At peak, we probably had close to 500 artists working [with a total of 800 crew]. And on top of that, we did not start production — not one frame of this film — until the summer of 2020, so we did it all from home over Zoom during the pa...
Franco first caught the music bug at age 10 when her parents bought her a drum kit. “I was just immersed in Latin music,” says the composer of growing up in El Paso, Texas, just across the border from the northern Mexican city Ciudad Juárez, where her family would make Sunday pilgrimages. “We would go to the market, to restaurants, to the plaza. Th...
Nov 17, 2021 · 'Encanto' Producers Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer on the Responsibility of Adding to Disney’s Collection of Memorable Characters. By Christina Radish. Published Nov 17, 2021. Link copied to...
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Sep 29, 2021 · Yvett Merino & Clark Spencer Interview: Encanto. Disney eschews an individualistic narrative for an homage to family in Encanto , arriving in theaters on November 24. The upcoming animated adventure introduces viewers to a magical house hiding in the mountains of Colombia and the multiple generations that live in it.
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Jul 8, 2021 · The film features all-new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) and is directed by Byron Howard (Zootopia, Tangled) and Jared Bush (co-director Zootopia), co-directed by Charise Castro Smith (writer The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez) and produced by Clark Spencer and Yvett Merino.
