The eight-minute film is the brainchild of Domee Shi, a Toronto animator, who is the first-ever woman to direct a Pixar short. Shi draws on her life experience when portraying the story of a ...

Since Pixar was first founded back in the mid-1980s, there have been roughly 35 Pixar short films. Can you guess how many of them were directed by men? If you guessed, “35” you’d be correct! Since the ...

"Bao" has a few different meanings in Chinese. Was it always your intention to create a literal bao dumpling? I had experimented with different designs for the bao, but I have always been in love with ...

Emeryville -- Even before any Oscar statuettes are handed out this Sunday, the Academy Awards has already made history by nominating the first woman director of a Pixar film. Domee Shi is a storyboard ...

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You’ve probably seen director Domee Shi’s short film Bao before. The eight-minute short, about a precious little dumpling coming to life, and doted on by his mother, before she violently eats him ...

Emeryville -- Even before any Oscar statuettes are handed out this Sunday, the Academy Awards has already made history by nominating the first woman director of a Pixar film. Domee Shi is a storyboard ...

The story is simple and sweet: an aging and lonely Chinese mother, suffering from empty nest syndrome, receives an unexpected second chance at motherhood when her homemade dumpling comes to life.