Making it happen: bringing your best stories to the screen
Animation Ireland is delighted to announce an evening with Pixar’s Senior Creative and top producer Nicole Paradis Grindle.
Thanks to the support of View Conference, Nicole will do a detour to Ireland from Italy to talk to us about her experience over several successful TV Series, Games and feature films.
Nicole Paradis Grindle joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1995 as producer of the “Toy Story Activity Center” interactive computer game. Since then, she has played various production management and producer roles on many of Pixar’s feature films, including “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Monsters University,” and Academy Award®-winning films “The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille” and “Toy Story 3.” She recently produced the feature film “Incredibles 2,” which grossed over $1.2 billion in global box office. Grindle most recently produced Pixar’s feature film “Hoppers,” released in March, 2026.
In 2015, Grindle produced the short film “Sanjay’s Super Team,” for which she was nominated for an Academy Award®. In addition to her film work, she has played numerous organizational roles in the studio, producing commercials, broadcast television shorts and promotional material. In 2014, Grindle partnered with Pixar colleague Mary Coleman to create a mentoring program for potential women directors, which bore fruit with the premiere of director Domee Shi’s Academy Award®-winning short film “Bao.”
Grindle came to Pixar with many years of animation production experience. She began her feature film career at Industrial Light and Magic on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and then moved to (Colossal) Pictures where she produced numerous projects including MTV’s groundbreaking short segment “Aeon Flux” which was featured on the program “Liquid Television.”
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Grindle graduated from The University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University. At Penn, she was a writer, actor, director and chair of the all-women’s sketch comedy group “Bloomers,” only learning later in life the genius of delegation. She currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
This panel will take place on Tuesday 20th of October at 6.30pm sharp in Dublin City Centre (Venue will be confirmed after booking). Nicole Paradis Grindle will be in conversation with Andrew Kavanagh from Kavaleer and there will be refreshment served at the venue with an opportunity for networking.
This event is supported by Coimisiún na Meán and View Conference, in partnership with Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and The National Talent Academy for Animation.
Please note that, while admission is free, places for this event are limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.