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.

Pixar's Elio, which was released earlier this summer, finally arrives on digital later this month and Blu-ray in September.

For Shi, a key motivation to set “Turning Red” in the early 2000s, the period when she was a young teen, was to experience a boy-band concert vicariously through her excited characters.

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.

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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.” ...

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Shi grew up in Toronto, where the film is based, and the conflict comes from her own upbringing. In “Turning Red,” she wanted to celebrate that period of her life and explore it from every angle.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

DOMEE SHI: The inspiration for Turning Red came from my own life. I was Meilin, that dorky 13-year-old girl who struggled with being her mom’s perfect little daughter and dealing with her own ...