2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Alan Barillaro

(Canada/USA)

ALAN BARILLARO is the Academy Award–winning writer and director of the animated short film Piper and has been supervising animator on many other popular theatrical releases, including The Incredibles, Incredibles 2, WALL-E, and Brave. He began his career in animation at the age of sixteen and spent more than twenty-five years at Pixar Animation Studios.

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