Lifted is a 2006 Pixar computer-animated short film directed by Gary Rydstrom. This is the first film directed by Rydstrom, a seven-time Academy Award-winning sound editor and mixer, and the first produced by Katherine Sarafian, who went on to produce Pix
The short premiered on October 12, 2006, at the 42nd Chicago International Film Festival at Columbia College and was released theatrically and on home media with Pixar's Ratatouille.