Angelique Jackson For the inaugural season of Disney’s “Launchpad” shorts incubator, the studio centered on the theme, “Discover,” encouraging audiences broaden their worldview through their short films.But another word that could describe this first group of films and the filmmakers who crafted them over the last 19 months is “Perseverance.”When Aqsa Altaf, Stefanie Abel Horowitz, Ann Marie Pace, Moxie Peng, Jessica Mendez Siqueiros and Hao Zheng got the call that they’d been selected to become the first class of filmmakers in Dec.
2019, no one expected they’d have to overcome a five-month production delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.“It has taken us almost three years to get to this point,” Mahin Ibrahim, director of Disney’s.
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