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Elio is an upcoming American animated science fiction adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is being directed by Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian with additional direction by Adrian Molina, and produced by Mary Alice Drumm. The film stars the voices of Yonas Kibreab, Jameela Jamil, Brad Garrett, and Zoe Saldaña. It follows an eleven-year-old boy named Elio Solis (Kibreab) who accidentally becomes the intergalactic Ambassador of planet Earth after being beamed up to the Communiverse by aliens for making contact. Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms and survive a series of formidable trials.