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Domee Shi may have signed on to co-direct the new Pixar Animation Studios movie, Elio, about halfway through its lengthy production schedule, but it didn’t take her long to identify with the ...

‘Elio’ is an intergalactic tale — but for Toronto’s Domee Shi, it hits close to home By: Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press Posted: 3:00 AM CDT Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2025 Last Modified: 9: ...

TORONTO — For Domee Shi, ... A scene from “Elio,” a Pixar animated sci-fi film about an 11-year-old orphan who yearns to be snatched by extraterrestrials to escape his loneliness — and ...

TORONTO — For Domee Shi, making a movie about an introverted kid getting abducted by aliens felt oddly familiar. Not because she’s had any close encounters, but because she remembers being a teenager ...

TORONTO - For Domee Shi, making a movie about an introverted kid getting abducted by aliens felt oddly familiar. Updated June 18, 2025 at 10:25 a.m. June 18, 2025 ...