![]() **Keep up to date with all the latest movie news, click here to subscribe to _Empire on Great Magazines and have the latest issue delivered to your door every month. DisneyPixar and the creative minds behind The Incredibles present 13 amazing award-winning short films with unforgettable characters and cutting-edge. In the coming days, two more shorts will hit YouTube – Smash and Grab, and Kitbull – while further SparkShorts creations are destined for the Disney+ streaming service. As an optimistic personification of earth and rocks, the kind-spirited soloist sings a. Purl is the first short to emerge from Pixar’s SparkShorts program, giving employees at the company six months and a limited budget to create a short. Lava sings the song of a lonely volcano whos desperate for companionship. Talking about teamwork implies doing it from different perspectives, and the one proposed here focuses especially on the idea of raising the thoughts that each one has as part of the group. And I came to Pixar, and started to work on teams with women for the first time, and that actually made me realise how much of the female aspect of myself I had sort of buried and left behind.” It carries the industry’s Pixar label and, like Sweet Cocoon, was nominated for the Oscar statuette in the category of best animated short film. And so in order to do the thing that I loved, I sort of became one of the guys. “My first job I was, like, the only woman in the room. ![]() “It’s based on my experience being in animation,” Lester explains in this making-of video. All that, and it’s stuffed with knitting puns, and the occasional (extremely mild) swear word. ![]() She finds herself forced to change in order to fit in – until she’s confronted with a new yarn co-worker, and uses her newfound acceptance in the office to elevate others like her. ![]() From director Kristen Lester, the short stars Bret Parker as Purl – a pink ball of wool, who bags a job at a male-dominated testosterone-heavy office, amusingly titled B.R.O. ![]()
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