Frozen (2013 film) billion, and Lasseter was promoted to chief creative officer of both Pixar and Disney Animation. The next attempt started in 2008, when Lasseter was able to convince Chris Buck (who co-directed the 1999 film "Tarzan" for the studio) to return to Walt Disney Animation Studios from Sony Pictures Animation (where he had recently co-directed the Oscar-nominated 2007 film "Surf's Up"); that September, Buck pitched several ideas to Lasseter, one of which was "The Snow Queen". Buck later revealed that his initial inspiration for "The Snow Queen" was not the Andersen fairy tale itself, but that he wanted "to do something
The Little Matchgirl (2006 film) about politics, but was treated as a visual style piece set to music, told entirely without sound or dialogue. The Little Matchgirl (2006 film) The Little Matchgirl is a 2006 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn. It is based on an original story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1845. During Christmas in Saint Petersburg, not too long before the Russian Revolution, an impoverished girl tries to sell matchsticks on the streets but everyone is completely indifferent towards