Piper (film)
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| Directed by | Alan Barillaro |
| Written by | Alan Barillaro |
| Produced by | Marc Sondheimer |
| Edited by | Sarah K. Reimers |
| Music by | Adrian Belew |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Piper is a 2016 American animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro, it was theatrically released alongside Pixar's Finding Dory on June 17, 2016. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards, becoming the first Pixar animated short to win the award since For the Birds in 2001.
The short film involves a hungry baby sandpiper learning to overcome her fear of water. The inspiration came from less than a mile away from Pixar Studios in Emeryville, California, where Barillaro, a veteran Pixar animator, would run alongside the shore and notice birds by the thousands fleeing from the water but returning between waves to eat.