🎬 Fact: Turning Red (2022) This film made history as the first Pixar feature to be directed solely by a woman, Domee Shi, who previously won an Oscar for her Pixar short Bao. The story’s “Red Panda” transformation is a metaphor for the messy, often embarrassing emotional changes of puberty. The colors in the film were chosen with a specific meaning: while protagonist Mei wears red, her mother and aunts wear green because it is opposite to red on the color wheel, symbolizing their team effort to