Adrian Molina
Adrian Molina (born August 23, 1985) is an American animator, storyboard artist and screenwriter who works for Pixar. He co-wrote the screenplay and story of Coco (2017), which he also co-directed.
Early life and education
Molina was born in Yuba City, California to a Mexican family, and raised in Grass Valley. He graduated from Bear River High School in 2003, to subsequently attend and graduate from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007.
Career
Molina joined Pixar in 2007. He started as a 2D animator on Ratatouille. He later moved on to be a storyboard artist, working on Toy Story 3 and Monsters University. Molina also illustrated the Little Golden Book for Toy Story 3. After writing for The Good Dinosaur, Molina started his first assignment as a screenwriter, for Coco, and later went on to co-direct the film. He also wrote several lyrics for the film.
Following the success of Coco and the D23 Expo announcement in September 2022, Molina was announced to direct the upcoming feature film Elio, set to release on June 20, 2025. However in August 2024, it was announced that Molina had left he project to develop another film with Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian directing Elio instead. Nevertheless, he is retaining his director credit on the film.
In March 2025, during the Disney Shareholder Meeting, CEO Bob Iger announced that the sequel to Coco was in early development, with Molina returning from the original film.
Personal life
Molina is gay. He has been married to Ryan Dooley since 2011.
Matthew Aldrich
Matthew Aldrich is known for Coco (2017), Lightyear (2022) and Cleaner (2007).
Matthew Aldrich’s career as a writer started with crafting stage plays for a traveling children’s theatre company. After graduating from UCLA where he initially pursued acting, his work in film began at the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes independent filmmakers. His time there took him to Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil, laying the groundwork for his later work at Pixar.
Aldrich first began working at Pixar on a film centered around the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in 2012, co-writing the screenplay and developing the story that would later become known as Coco. After the film’s November release in 2017, it earned $807 million at box offices worldwide — and the praise of critics.
Besides his credits on Pixar’s Coco, Matthew Aldrich’s name also appears in the credits for Finding Dory with special thanks, and his creative involvement with the company over the years has been wide-ranging.
His first work to appear in theaters was the Samuel L. Jackson movie Cleaner released in 2008. A few years later his speculative screenplay, crime drama Father Daughter Time, sparked an intense bidding war that caught the attention of Matt Damon. Father Daughter Time is still in development, along with Aldrich’s subsequent script The Ballad of Pablo Escobar. Both scripts earned coveted spots on The Black List, an annual survey of the “most liked” motion picture screenplays not yet produced.
In more recent years, Aldrich adapted a screenplay for the Reese Witherspoon project Opening Belle, while in 2018, his screenplay Spinning Man arrived to the silver screen starring Guy Pearce, Pierce Brosnan, and Minnie Driver.
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