Trevor Jimenez is a

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animator."WATCH: Trevor Jimenez’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Weekends’ Returns Online"
'' Animation World Network'', December 27, 2018. He is most noted for his 2018 film ''

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'', which was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the

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."Canadian nominees dominate Oscars’ animated short film category"
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'', January 22, 2019. The film, a depiction of his real-life childhood experiences as the son of divorced parents who spent the week with his mother in Hamilton,

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and the weekends with his father in

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, was produced through the co-op program at

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, which permits employees to use company resources to make their own independent short films. Jimenez has worked as a story artist on films such as '' Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', '' Rio'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Coco'' and ''

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''.

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