Must Watch: Pixar’s Beautiful, Oscar-Nominated Short Film ‘La Luna’

If you saw Brave this past summer, the traditional Pixar short film beforehand was yet another charming installment in the animation studio’s long history of brilliant short filmmaking. With beautiful imagery, cute characters and a truly original premise, the Oscar nominated short La Luna might have actually succeeded in showing up the feature length film from Pixar that followed (in fact, Brave probably isn’t the best animated feature of the year). While you can catch this short on the Blu-Ray/DVD of Brave arriving November 13th, the full short is now available in full for your viewing pleasure online. It’s lovely. Watch! Here’s the Pixar short La Luna from Enrico Casarosa via The Film Stage: A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they …