Weekends is a 2017 American animated film.[1] It was written and directed by Trevor Jimenez, a Canadian-born animator for Pixar, the film depicts Jimenez's own childhood experience as a child of divorced parents, who regularly spent the week living with his mother in Hamilton, Ontario while spending weekends with his father in Toronto.[1]
Jimenez made the film through the co-op program at Pixar, which permits employees to use some company resources to make their own independent short films.[1]