Disney•Pixar‘s Finding Dory will be swimming into theaters this Friday, June 17 and it will be bringing with it a brand new short film. In the player at the bottom of this page, you can take a first look at director Alan Barillaro’s Piper short!
“Seeing the way these sandpipers react to waves and run, I always felt, ‘Gosh, that’s a film, that’s a character,” Piper short director Alan Barillaro told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year. “It’s always fun to show a world we’re familiar with but from a different perspective. We’ve all been to the beach, but have we ever viewed water from just an inch off the sand? That could be very fearful from a bird’s perspective.”
Finding Dory, meanwhile, picks up six months after the first movie, with Dory living a quiet life among the clown fishes. After going with Nemo on a class trip to see manta rays migrate back home, her home sickness leads the forgetful Dory on a quest to find where she came from.
Finding Dory features the return of Finding Nemo characters Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), Marlin (Albert Brooks), Nemo (Hayden Rolence), Mr. Ray (Bob Peterson), Crush (Andrew Stanton) and Squirt. New characters include an Octopus named Hank (Ed O’Neill), a whale shark named Destiny (Kaitlin Olson), a beluga named Bailey (Ty Burrell), a pair of sea lions, Rudder (Dominic West) and Fluke (Idris Elba), and Dory’s parents, Charlie (Eugene Levy) and Jenny (Diane Keaton).
