Pixar

Do you ever sit down to watch a movie and think “Can’t wait to watch this super cute relaxing movie,” only to be met so much internal reflection that you end up crying so hard that you can’t breathe? No? That was just me when I watched “Turning Red“? As a local Torontonian resident, I [...]

Recently, Disney and Pixar released a new animation called “Turning Red.” I’ll be honest, I don’t keep up with new movie releases and only heard of this briefly from my students and in news articles that I saw the headlines of. I heard that the movie was about a girl of Asian descent living in [...]

“Turning Red,” Pixar’s latest release about a young Chinese-Canadian girl on the verge of growing up, touches on a number of relevant issues and struggles that come with growing up. I found Meilin, the main character who turns into a red panda when she gets emotional because of an ancient tradition passed down from her [...]

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a huge fan of Pixar. It started when I was 7, and the original “Toy Story” film came out. I watched the film and would then act out the scenes with my toys. This, without me knowing, helped me build my communication skills as an autistic [...]

When the calendar flipped to January 2, director/writer Erica Milsom took to Twitter to announce she would share one fun fact each day — for a total of nine — leading up to the January 10 release date of “Loop,” the new Disney/Pixar SparkShorts film she directed with producers Krissy Cababa and Michael Warch. The seven-minute film, [...]

I just watched the new animated short “Loop,” which features Pixar’s first-ever nonverbal autistic character. The short, which was released on January 10, 2020, is summarized by Pixar as “two kids (Marcus and Renee who is a young autistic girl) at canoe camp who find themselves adrift on a lake, unable to move forward until [...]

Dear Pixar, When I heard your parent company, Walt Disney Studios, was set to launch a streaming service called Disney+, I had no idea the plus sign would stand for inclusion. I’d missed the media coverage that explained how your new series of short animated films, SparkShorts, was designed to give women and people of [...]

After the release of the Pixar short film “Float,” Disney+ has another autism-themed short on the way, “Loop,” slated for release Jan. 10, 2020. In celebration of the launch of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, Pixar created a series of six new short films called SparkShorts. One of these, which has yet to be released, [...]

As an autistic adult, I appreciated so many things about one of Pixar’s most recent short films, “Float,” available on Disney+ now. Though the film is intended to be relatable for many people, the creator of the short, Bobby Alcid Rubio, wrote it based on his real relationship with his son on the autism spectrum. It’s the [...]