Rosana Sullivan

Rosana Sullivan is an American filmmaker and storyboard artist, best known for her work at Pixar Animation Studios. She wrote and directed her first animated short film, Kitbull, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.

Early life and education Rosana Sullivan was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew up in Texas. She has one brother. In her junior year, she took a course in portrait painting to satisfy an art credit and realized that art was her real calling.

Career Sullivan worked as a lead character designer at Ooga Labs and a 2D artist at Kabam before joining Pixar Animation Studios in 2011. She was nominated for a 2015 Annie Award for outstanding achievement in storyboarding in an animated feature production for her work on The Good Dinosaur. In February 2019, she wrote and directed her first animated film, a nine-minute traditionally animated short called Kitbull, which is part of the SparkShorts series.

In April 2019, Sullivan published an autobiographical picture book, Mommy Sayang, describing the life of a girl and her mother in a Malaysian village. This story, along with others that she has written, was inspired by her mother's roots in Malaysia.

In January 2021, it was announced that Sullivan began developing a feature film for Pixar.

Filmography Short films YearTitleCredited as Director Storyboard artist Writer 2009 Long Shadows 2016 Piper 2019 Kitbull 2020 Loop

Feature films YearTitleCredited as Storyboard artist Executive producer 2013 Monsters University 2015 The Good Dinosaur 2018 Incredibles 2 2019 Toy Story 4 2020 Onward Soul 2022 Turning Red Sources: Annie Awards February 6, 2016 Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in a Feature Production The Good Dinosaur

Humanitas Prize January 24, 2020 Humanitas Prize for Short Film Kitbull