In the midst of this scrutiny comes Domee Shi, the Chinese-Canadian director of “Bao,” who could become only the fourth Asian animation director ever to win an Oscar, and the first Asian woman ...

Domee Shi: Yeah. It was so awesome in that, we already had this built-in shorthand of talking about issues that a 13-year-old girl would deal with. Like a lot of us have like have had that experience.

With “Turning Red,” Shi is the first woman ever to be a solo director on a Pixar feature. According to Disney, the movie was the No. 1 film premiere on Disney Plus in the streamer’s history.

However, director Domee Shi based a lot of the film on what she went through going up. Not only that, but the film connects to her Asian heritage and her life as a “Chinese Canadian.” ...

I’m proud to have it.” Shi revealed, “We had initially planned to treat Sandra’s voice with an effect when she became Mingzilla because, you know, she’s this 200-foot-tall monster.

Turning Red Director Domee Shi and Sandra Oh Break Down That Bittersweet Ending A spoiler-heavy discussion of the complicated mother-daughter relationship at the heart of Pixar’s latest tearjerker.

Domee Shi’s feature directorial debut “Turning Red,” is a coming-of-age movie about a Chinese Canadian girl and follows her Oscar-winning animated short “Bao.” On Tuesday, May 3 at 2:00 ...

Domee Shi, 29, is the first woman to direct an animated short for Pixar. Her film, “Bao,” is up for an Oscar this month. She’s seen here in January 2018 at Pixar Animation Studios in ...

The 20th helmer to take on a Pixar short since the mid-1980s, and the the first woman to do so, Bao‘s Domee Shi is now on the path to making her feature debut, with the backing of one of the ...

Meet Domee Shi, the woman who in just seven years went from an intern to the first female director of a short film at Pixar Studios. "I still pinch myself everyday,” she said.