‘An Almost Christmas Story’ Director David Lowery on His First Animated Short and Choosing CG Over Live-Action

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor The animated short “An Almost Christmas Story” completes Alfonso Cuaron’s trifecta of Christmas stories.

This time, he turned to “The Green Knight” director David Lowery to helm the storytelling. “It was almost exactly three years ago that I read the script for the first time,” says Lowery.

He happened to be feeling very festive, and it was an instant yes to sign on. “It feels exactly the right thing to do. I love Christmas.

I love the tradition of Christmas movies, and I love short Christmas films,” Lowery says. He also loved the idea of what Cuaron had done with “The Shepherd” and “Le Pupille,” creating a new series of films for Disney+ which hopefully, along with “An Almost Christmas Story ” would become perennial classics. “An Almost Christmas Story,” now streaming on Disney+, is based on the true story of an owl that was rescued from the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree in 2020.