Right now, Rosana Sullivan can't have a pet, despite how desperately she wants one. Her husband is allergic to cats and she has a toddler in the house, so getting a dog would be "insane," she says. So, her Pixar SparkShort about an unlikely friendship between a stray black kitten and an abused pit bull, fulfilled that fantasy for her.
The way humans can negatively affect animals' well-being is also explored through a scene in which the pit bull frees the cat after it gets tangled up in the plastic rings from an eight-pack of soda. "The trash was definitely there as a terrible byproduct of human neglect," says Sullivan. "But it also represented the kitten's own baggage, how it prevents itself from truly thriving. There's so much meaning in those Coke rings.", which premiered at L.A.
Casinelli and her co-writer, Michael Cummings, drew inspiration from friendships they enjoy watching play out onscreen, as in Netflix's. "Seeing Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas chide each other but get over it in the next instant was something we felt is natural," she recalls. "That's just how true friendships are."
"My only cousin came out as gay as an adult. He was really worried about my grandmother's reaction, and she handled it so well. I love the idea with Connie that she's so excited to find her granddaughter and have that connection to family," Casinelli says. "How she found her granddaughter or what her granddaughter does never enters the equation. She only sees the positive.
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