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Jill Culton is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and screenwriter. With her directorial debut on Sony's first animated film, Open Season, she became the first female principal director of a big budget, computer-generated feature.
Jill Culton is a filmmaker who has worked on animated movies such as Abominable, Monsters, Inc. and Open Season. She has also created and produced TV shows such as Abominable and the Invisible City and She Creates Change.
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Sep 25, 2019 · Jill Culton, the first woman to co-direct a 3D animated film, talks about her journey from Pixar to Dreamworks and her latest project, Abominable. She shares her vision for a female-led yeti movie, the challenges of story development, and the changes in the industry.
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Jill Culton isn't just a leader in the world of Animation in Hollywood, she's also a trailblazer. Having navigated the waters at both Sony and Pixar, her l...
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Dec 14, 2005 · Pixar: 20 Years. of Animation. Dec 14, 2005–. Feb 6, 2006. MoMA. Licensing. Feedback. American, born 1968 Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. Photography by Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMA.
Sep 19, 2019 · Yi (Chloe Bennet), center, her mother (Michelle Wong, left) and grandmother, Nai Nai (Tsai Chin, right) have a tense moment in their Shanghai apartment in DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio’s “Abominable,” written and directed by Jill Culton.
For writer and director Jill Culton, who also directed Open Season (2006), taking on Abominable meant an opportunity to develop an animated film with a strong, female lead more representative of the type character she would have related more to as a kid than the fairy tale princesses she routinely saw in films and on TV.
