“Float” Full SparkShort | Pixar
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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)
Published: Fri Feb 26 2021
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“Float” was inspired by director, Bobby Alcid Rubio’s own son, who was diagnosed with autism.
Rubio went on to pitch the story to Lindsay Collins, executive producer of the SparkShorts program, who thought the story was ideal.
Yet when Rubio pitched the story, even his own sketches and storyboards featured a Caucasian father and son.
“A co-worker saw the cover and said, ‘Bobby, this is your story. The character should be Filipino American.’ I thought, does anyone want to see a Filipino American character? I had this unconscious bias,” Rubio admits. It was only when he was asked how his son would feel looking at the screen and seeing a Caucasian kid that Rubio’s thinking was challenged. “I did not want Alex to think that I was ashamed. I wanted him to know that his dad loved him, and he was worth it. I wanted to empower him and empower children of color.”
The above quote is an interesting insight.
Even Asians in creative fields are so used to not being represented, that their first thought is not even to depict themselves in their own stories.
I’m glad that whoever his coworker was, spoke up and gave him a new way of looking at things.
The Making of Float:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHJx2ulPJIo&ab\_channel=PixarCentral