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Mar 11, 2022 · Director Domee Shi is excited as she discusses one of her favorite scenes from her first feature: when Meilin Lee, her 13-year-old protagonist, “goes down her lusty drawing spiral under her bed...
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Turning Red is a 2022 American animated coming-of-age [4] fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Domee Shi (in her feature directorial debut) and produced by Lindsey Collins, from a screenplay written by Shi and Julia Cho, and a story by Shi, Cho, and Sarah ...
- 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.
Mar 11, 2022 · Turning Red: Directed by Domee Shi. With Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park. A thirteen-year-old girl named Mei Lee is torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the changes of adolescence.
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- Domee Shi
- 2022-03-11
Mar 8, 2022 · Domee Shi sums up her vision for Turning Red, Pixar’s latest coming-of-age fantasy comedy, as “ Asian Tween Fever Dream ” — an aesthetic and energy that’s equal parts bright, spunky, dorky, and...
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.
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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.
