The next short film from the Academy Award winning team at the Disney owned Pixar Studios will go out of this world.
Lifted is a five minute animated short which follows a bumbling young alien student from a distant world who tests the patience of an increasingly weary instructor as he attempts a first-time abduction of a innocently slumbering farmer.

The film will debut on October 14th at the 42nd Chicago International Film Festival, where Pixar Animation Studios director Gary Rydstrom hosts a rare theatrical screening of four acclaimed Pixar shorts.

Lifted is Rydstorm's first directing effort. For the last 22 years, Rydstorm has been working as a sound designer, working on anything and everything from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to 2003's Peter Pan.

Lifted will be shown before Ratatouille, which hits theaters on June 29th 2007.