Nicolas Alan Barillaro is a Canadian director, animator and writer at Pixar best known for his work on the animated short film Piper,[1] that earned him widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film which he shared with the film's producer Marc Sondheimer.[2][3]
Barillaro also attended Sheridan College in Oakville.[4]
In 2023 Barillaro published the middle grade novel Where the Water Takes Us.[5] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Jean Little First-Novel Award in 2024.[6]
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- ^ "Alumni Profiles". sheridancollege.ca. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ "Where the Water Takes Us by Alan Barillaro". CBC Books, August 9, 2023.
- ^ Natalie Vilkoff, "Jack Wong, Sydney Smith and Liselle Sambury among finalists for top Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 8, 2024.