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Domee Shi (/ ˈ d oʊ m i /; Chinese: 石之予; pinyin: Shí Zhīyǔ; born 8 September 1989) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She directed the 2018 short film Bao and the 2022 feature film Turning Red , 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 .
- Canadian
- Sheridan College
- 2010−present
- Shi Zhiyu (石之予), 8 September 1989 (age 34), Chongqing, China
- 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 7, 2022 · Domee Shi is the first woman filmmaker with sole directing credit on a Pixar feature. Share full article. 19. Domee Shi, the director of “Turning Red.” The film is about a Chinese-Canadian ...
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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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Domee Shi
- 2022-03-11
Mar 9, 2022 · Turning Red. , Domee Shi Explores Uncharted Animated Waters. The director of Pixar’s latest on the joys—and weight—of being a trailblazer. By Nancy Yuen. March 9, 2022. Photo by Dave J Hogan ...
Oct 5, 2022 · But that highly specific logline is the one that Domee Shi used to persuade Pixar to greenlight her feature directorial debut, some half a decade ago when the then-20-something was a budding ...
Jan 6, 2023 · Everything changed for director Domee Shi at Pixar in 2022. She released her first feature, “Turning Red,” the semi-autobiographical, anime-inspired, coming-of-age comedy that’s an Oscar ...
