1. Domee Shi is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter.
23 Facts About Domee Shi
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Domee Shi has directed the short film Bao and the feature films Turning Red and the upcoming Elio, 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.
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Domee Shi was an additional story artist for Incredibles 2.
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For Bao, Domee Shi won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards, and earned nominations for the 43rd Annie Awards, the International Online Cinema Awards, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Domee Shi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Turning Red.
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Domee Shi was born on 8 September 1989 in Chongqing, Sichuan as an only child before immigrating to Canada at the age of two with her parents.
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Domee Shi spent six months in Newfoundland before moving to Toronto, where she grew up learning about art from her father.
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Domee Shi was influenced by her father, who had been a college professor of fine arts and a landscape painter in China.
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Domee Shi took inspiration and guidance from her mother's personality when directing Bao and Turning Red.
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Domee Shi joined online art communities and uploaded her fan artwork to DeviantArt.
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Domee Shi created a short film for an assignment during her last year at Sheridan.
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Domee Shi later said that she developed her interest in writing stories about food while making My Food Fantasies.
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Domee Shi drew storyboards for the 2018 film Incredibles 2, where she worked on a sequence featuring the characters Jack-Jack and Edna Mode.
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On her career as a Chinese Canadian female director, Domee Shi says that through her work as a filmmaker, she strives for the industry to reach the point where people are identified first as artists, and second by gender and ethnicity, stating that it gets old fast when she gets asked how it feels to be an Asian woman.
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Domee Shi won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Bao, becoming the first woman of color to win the award.
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On May 8,2018, it was reported that Domee Shi was directing a feature film at Pixar.
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On November 26,2018, Domee Shi confirmed that she was working on a film at the studio.
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On October 5,2022, Domee Shi was confirmed to be developing another original Pixar feature film.
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On June 12,2024, Pixar's Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter revealed that Domee Shi was working on Elio, set for release on June 13,2025.
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Domee Shi is influenced by her father's art, as he was her art teacher while growing up.
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Domee Shi's parents were her biggest influences when directing Bao.
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For Turning Red, Domee Shi was inspired by the teenage girl's experience in navigating adolescence and all the weirdness that comes with it, incorporating her own personal experiences and aspects of her hometown, Toronto.
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Domee Shi says that most of her ideas come from specific cultures around her.