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    How Disney’s Animated Short ‘Versa’ Tells a Story of Loss, Grief and Hope Through Dance and Music

    • 17.10.2025
    • By Jazz Tangcay
    Variety

    Long-time Walt Disney animator Malcon Pierce’s animated short “Versa” is a deeply personal story. The animated short, playing at the Animation Is Film Festival this weekend, follows a young couple looking to start a family who experience a gamut of emotions—from grief and loss to ultimate joy—as they embark on an ethereal, abstract and imaginative cosmic dance of life.

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