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Pixar's powerful new short will touch your heart


Cape Town – Starting a new job is pretty much like the first day of school: You’re nervous, afraid you won’t fit in and that you might not make friends. 

Pixar’s new animation short Purl, centres on just that. A pink ball of yarn tries to fit into her new male dominated workplace. The men start ostracising her and she in turns changes who she is to fit in.

WATCH IT HERE:

In a companion video writer and director Kristen Lester said the film was based on her own experience in the animation field. 

“When Kristen came to me and said, ‘This is a story that I want to tell,’ I looked at her and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I have lived the exact same thing,'" said producer Gillian Libbert-Duncan.

WATCH IT HERE:

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