Madeline Sharafian is a story artist and director at Pixar Animation Studios. She started in 2013 as a story intern and was hired full time in May of 2015 as a storyboard artist on Coco. Her first directorial credit was on the SparkShorts film Burrow. Her feature film directorial debut was on Elio.
Prior to Pixar, Sharafian worked as a storyboard artist and writer at Cartoon Network on We Bare Bears (along with fellow Pixar director Daniel Chong). She studied at the California Institute of the Arts.[1]
Filmography[]
- Coco (2017): story artist
- Purl (2018): story trust
- Kitbull (2019): story trust
- Onward (2020): story lead
- Burrow (2020): director, writer, story artist, additional animator
- Twenty Something (2021): story trust
- Turning Red (2022): story lead
- 1 True Love (2022): story consultant
- Dream Productions (2024):
- The Dream Team: associate executive producer
- Out of Body: associate executive producer
- Romance!: associate executive producer
- A Night to Remember: associate executive producer
- Elio (2025): director, storywriter, additional voice
- Hoppers (2026): story supervisor
References[]
- ↑ Elio Advance Kit, April 30, 2025.