The Pixar Story

The Pixar Story
The Pixar Story
Directed by	Leslie Iwerks
Written by	Leslie Iwerks
Produced by	Leslie Iwerks
Starring	John Lasseter; Brad Bird; Ed Catmull; Steve Jobs
Narrated by	Stacy Keach
Cinematography	Suki Medencevic
Edited by	Leslie Iwerks ; Stephen Myers, A.C.E
Music by	Jeff Beal
Production; companies	Leslie Iwerks Productions; Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release date	August 28, 2007;
Running time	87 minutes
Language	English

The Pixar Story, directed by Leslie Iwerks, is a documentary of the history of Pixar Animation Studios. An early version of the film premiered at the Sonoma Film Festival in 2007, and it had a limited theatrical run later that year before it was picked up by the Starz cable network in the United States.

The film was released, outside North America, on DVD in summer 2008 as part of the "Ultimate Pixar Collection",^[1] a box set of Pixar films. It was then included as a special feature on the WALL-E special edition DVD and Blu-ray releases, which were launched on November 18, 2008, and again on its Criterion edition.^[2]

The film premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom.^[3]

Synopsis

The success story of Pixar Animation Studios from the ground up.

Voice cast

Steve Jobs – Principal Investor & co-founder of Pixar
John Lasseter – Pixar co-founder & visionary
Tim Allen – Actor, voiced Buzz Lightyear
Brad Bird – Director
Edwin Catmull – First Chief Technical Officer
Billy Crystal – Actor, voiced Mike in Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University
Michael Eisner – Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company
Tom Hanks – Actor, voiced Sheriff Woody
Bob Iger – CEO of The Walt Disney Company
George Lucas – Founder of Lucasfilm, Pixar's original foundation
James Ford Murphy – Head of animation & director of Lava
Diane Disney Miller – Daughter of Walt Disney and wife of former Disney CEO Ron Miller
Marc Davis – animator
Stacy Keach – Narrator