Pixar is going ethnic with its next short. It announced today Sanjay’s Super Team directed by Pixar veteran and Indian-American artist Sanjay Patel.
The short will debut in June at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in southern France, and will be released theatrically in front of the studio’s November release The Good Dinosaur.
According to the LA Times,, which first announced the project, the seven-minute Sanjay’s Super Team follows the daydream of a young Indian boy, bored with his dad’s religious meditation, who imagines “a kind of ancient, Hindu version of The Avengers, with the gods appearing like superheros.” The film’s setting is an old Route 66 motel in San Bernardino, California, inspired by the Lido Motel that Patel’s immigrant parents owned and lived in when he was growing up—and which they still own today.
