Sanjay’s Super team in Oscar race

Sanjay’s Super Team, an animated short film by Indian-American Sanjay Patel, has been shortlisted with 9 other titles to advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards.

Sixty pictures had originally qualified in the category before the list was pruned to 10.

Short Films and Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from the shortlist. In Sanjay’s Super Team, by Pixar Animation Studios, accomplished artist Sanjay Patel uses his own experience to tell the story of a young, first-generation Indian-American boy whose love for western pop culture comes into conflict with his father’s traditions.

Directed by Sanjay Patel and produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, Sanjay’s Super Team opens in theaters on 4th December 2015, in front of Disney Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur.