Exploring connection and friendship in vibrant animation, 'Elio'

AFTER working on some of Hollywood's biggest animation productions, Mary Alice Drumm hopes that her producing debut in Elio brings about connection.

- KARISHMA DIPA

With the highly anticipated Pixar Animation Studios’ movie, which is set to be released on Friday, the American film-maker hopes that this movie brings people from all walks of life together.

“I hope that people go and see the movie and just fall in love with these characters,” she said during a recent interview with Independent Media Lifestyle.

“I joke that I hope that I will be on an aeroplane in two years time and I will see a little kid with a Glordon doll, these are just characters we love who are telling us a story about connection.”

“It is a great movie to go and see with kids and it brings families together and with this cosmic adventure, I hope it leaves a mark and it leaves them with something to talk about, which is the importance of family and friendship so that is my hope for the audience.”

The sci-fi adventure centres around Elio, an alien-obsessed young boy who discovers an interplanetary paradise that is home to intelligent life from galaxies far and wide.