AnimationWorld Magazine — August 8, 2018
WATCH: Trevor Jimenez’s ‘Weekends’ Available Online Through August 22
Directed by Pixar story artist Trevor Jimenez, Weekends is the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal, dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980’s Toronto.
Weekends most recently won both the Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Annecy International Animation Festival, and also won top prizes at the Warsaw Film Festival and Nashville Film Festival, qualifying the film three times over for submission to the Oscars.
Jimenez is a Canadian filmmaker who has worked as a story artist for more than 10 years, most notably at Pixar, Cinderbiter, Disney Feature Animation, Illumination Entertainment and Blue Sky Studios. His student film Key Lime Pie screened at numerous international festivals including Annecy, Ottawa International Animation Festival, AFI Fest, Zagreb, Mike Judge’s “The Animation Show vol. 4,” and won the award for best animated short at AFI Dallas 2008. He is currently employed in the story department at Pixar, where he is working on the as-yet untitled forthcoming feature from Pete Docter, while also pursuing his own creative projects.