Disney • Pixar Meet the Filmmakers Behind Purl | Pixar SparkShorts Trailer, cast and more

VIDEO Disney•Pixar Meet the Filmmakers Behind Purl | Pixar SparkShorts TV commercial 2019 • Director Kristen Lester and Producer Gillian Libbert-Duncan introduce their Pixar SparkShort, Purl. 00:01 hi I'm Kristen Lester and I'm the writer 00:03 director of pearl 00:04 one of the first shorts from Pixar's 00:06 spark shorts program Perl is a movie 00:09 about belonging well it's based on my 00:12 experience being in animation my first 00:16 job I was like the only woman in the 00:18 room and so in order to do the thing 00:21 that I loved I sort of became one of the 00:23 guys and then I came to Pixar and I 00:27 started to work on teams with women for 00:29 the first time and that actually made me 00:32 realize how much of the female aspect of 00:35 myself I had sort of buried and left 00:37 behind when Kristin came to me and said 00:40 this is the story that I want to tell I 00:42 looked at her and I said oh my gosh I 00:44 have lived the exact same thing and then 00:47 any time I pitched the idea of a ball of 00:49 yarn tries to get a job people were like 00:52 that is totally nuts 00:54 I totally want to see that - advertisement spot 2019