WINDSOR, ONT. A Chatham man is waiting to see if his ground-breaking animated film “Out” will be nominated for an Academy Award under the Best Animated Short category. Nomination voting began Friday, to narrow down a list of 10 potential nominees. “There’s a point where I’m like, I can’t think about it,” says writer and director Steven Hunter. “It’s too much!” Hunter says the film tells the story of Greg, a young man who is hesitant to come out as gay to his parents. A story Hunter says represents his own lived experience. “Out of 96 films, they brought it down to 10 and we got to be a part of that 10. I mean, that’s humbling already,” he says.
Pixar Releases Short Films 'Wind' and 'Float' in Solidarity With Asian and Asian-American Communities: In response to the rise in Asian-American hate crimes.
Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2021 by Hoai-Tran Bui
A different kind of plague has emerged with renewed force in the last year alongside COVID-19: the rise of hate crimes against Asians and Asian-Americans in the U.S. The spike in anti-Asian violence began around a year ago when the coronavirus pandemic first reached American shores, and was exacerbated by former President Donald Trump and other federal officials repeatedly calling COVID-19 the “China virus” or the “Kung flu.” But recent months have begun to rack up a body count notably, an elderly Thai man who was killed in San Francisco in January and the growing public advocacy of Asian-American celebrities, who have called for change.
Pixar SparkShorts Directors to Discuss Burrow, Out, Float, Loop and Wind in Free Virtual PreVIEW Talk
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Filmmakers behind Pixar’s SparkShorts “Burrow,” “Out,” “Float,” “Loop” and “Wind” will discuss their work in a free online PreVIEW talk presented by the VIEW Conference, beginning at 10 a.m. PT on Friday, Feb. 26. “Burrow” and “Out” are on the Academy’s shortlist for Oscar nominations.
The SparkShorts program was begun by Pixar in 2019 as a way for the studio’s staff to work on personal projects with limited studio oversight while exploring unique story ideas and storytelling techniques and testing new workflows.