Adrian Molina (born August 23, 1985) is an American animator,

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, screenwriter,

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, and

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. He has been at

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since 2007, where he started as a 2D animator on ''

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''. He later moved on to be a storyboard artist, working on ''

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'' and '' Monsters University''. After writing for ''

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'', Molina started his first assignment as a screenplay writer, for '' Coco'', and later went on to co-direct the film. He is now writing and directing an original feature-length film for Pixar, titled ''Elio''. The film is set to release on March 1, 2024. Molina also illustrated the

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for ''Toy Story 3''. A native of Northern California, he grew up in Grass Valley, California, and he graduated from

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in 2003, to subsequently attend and graduate from the

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in 2007. He is of Mexican descent.

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