The new animated film Pixar, Luca directed by Casarosa, is Italian

(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 30 - Pixar announces the details on the new original film being prepared, entitled, 'Luca', set in Italy and directed by an Italian director, here at his feature debut, the Genoese Enrico Casarosa, who works in Use for years. The filmmaker already has an Oscar nomination in 2012 for his animated short film La Luna, made for the animated house created by John Lasseter, where he has also worked on films such as Ratatouille, Up and Coco.
   'Luca' is expected to debut on US screens in early summer, June 18, 2021 with Disney. "It is a deeply personal story for me not only because it is set on the Italian Riviera where I grew up, but because the core of the film is a friendship story" explains in one note Casarosa, born in 1970, who after studying at Schoolof Visual Arts and Illustration of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, he worked primarily as a storyboard artist and background artist, among others for Disney Channel and Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age, Robots) before joining Pixar. "Childhood friendships often trace the course of what we want to become and the heart of the story of 'Luca is in those bonds." So together with the beauty and charm of the Italian sea, our film will propose an unforgettable summer that will fundamentally change Luca. "The film is a training story about an Italian child who shares his adventures on the Riviera with a new best friend, who hides a secret: is actually a monster that belongs to another world, existing just below the surface of the water. In the first image of the film diffused online the director's homage to one of his models, Hayao Miyazaki Before 'Luca, Pixar / Disney has Soul, whose debut scheduled for the summer is due to be released for the coronavirus, will be released in the US on November 20. for an accident his soul leaves the body. (ANSA).