Piper (film)

Piper
Film poster
Directed byAlan Barillaro
Written byAlan Barillaro
Produced byMarc Sondheimer
Edited bySarah K. Reimers
Music byAdrian Belew
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
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Release date
Running time
6 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States

Piper is a 2016 American animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro, it was theatrically released alongside Pixar's Finding Dory on June 17, 2016.[2] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards, becoming the first Pixar animated short to win the award since For the Birds in 2001.

The short film involves a hungry baby sandpiper learning to overcome her fear of water. The inspiration came from less than a mile away from Pixar Studios in Emeryville, California, where Barillaro, a veteran Pixar animator, would run alongside the shore and notice birds by the thousands fleeing from the water but returning between waves to eat.[1][2]


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  1. ^ a b Snetiker, Marc (April 6, 2016). "Piper: Pixar's cutest new short-film hero gets first look". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Imbler, Sabrina (June 17, 2016). "A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Pixar's New Short Film 'Piper'". Audubon. National Audubon Society. Retrieved January 12, 2017.