This is beautiful!
Disney is set to release a new short film entitled “Versa” in March. The film is making its rounds on social media as it beautifully promotes a pro-life message.
The six-minute short focuses on a couple who lost a baby late in pregnancy. According to Deadline, the couple “tries to work together to pull themselves out of a black hole of despair after the loss of their baby.”
“Though the six-minute short has no dialogue, it has plenty to say through dazzling animation, a beautiful score, and by moving the nameless male and female couple through the galaxy with nothing but expressions that run the gamut from joy to loss, grief, and acceptance,” Deadline reported last December.
Director Malcon Pierce based the story on his own experience with infant loss.
He and his wife were pregnant with their son, Cooper, during the production of "Moana." Cooper passed away late in his wife’s pregnancy.
“This reset my wife and [me] in a very big way,” Pierce told Deadline in an interview. “I was just thinking about grief as this incredibly big and nearly impossible thing to get over.”
Pro-life advocate and Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins published a photo of “Versa” on Instagram.
She said, “The story features a pregnant family and even shows a baby kicking in the womb.”
“Disney is finally promoting the pro-life message in its new short film, ‘Versa,’ premiering next month. The story features a pregnant family and even shows a baby kicking in the womb,” Hawkins wrote. “More of this, Disney. 👏”
“And of course, the Left wasted no time in attacking Disney for this pro-family film. I’ll absolutely be watching it 👏,” Hawkins continued.
“The film is inspired by the director and the death of his infant son. It will tell the story of grief and hope in the midst of child loss. 🤍”
Kristan Hawkins’ post went viral with more than 40,000 likes and almost 3,000 comments. Here’s what some people said about Disney’s “Versa”:
“Wow, this is honestly a surprise! But a good one,” one user said.
“Between this and the trailer for the new Toy Story movie, I’m really hopeful that Disney has finally realized the direction we’d like them to go,” someone else commented.
“Those of us who've lost children...at any age... Well, it sounds nice that we might be ‘seen’ through something mainstream,” another user expressed.
“Sounds like I’ll be sobbing because his story hits close to home 😭” someone else added.