Jonas Rivera

Jonas Rivera is an American film producer. He produced the animated films Up (2009), Inside Out (2015) and Toy Story 4 (2019). Rivera is an alumnus of San Francisco State University who has worked with Pixar Animation Studios since 1994.

Early life
Rivera was born and raised in Castro Valley, California. As a boy, he wanted to become an animator, but according to him, he could not draw: "I was a terrible artist, and I still am." Rivera graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Film Production.

Career
In 1994, in the last year of making Toy Story, he joined Pixar as the first production intern: "I saw Luxo Jr. in a class and liked it so much I cold-called Pixar." Since then he worked on almost every Pixar film, at first as a coordinator and manager. In 2009, as the producer of Up, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rivera also produced Pete Docter's Inside Out (2015), for which they won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

During the making of the first Toy Story, he was collecting things used in the production of the movie, a collection which would eventually be known as the Pixar Archives, now counting thousands of objects and stored in a climate-controlled building. He got the idea from Disney, which also saved objects from the studio productions.

Personal life
Rivera is married to Michele. They have three children: daughters Ava and Elsa and son William. He is of Mexican American descent.

Filmography

 * Toy Story (1995) – Production office assistant
 * A Bug's Life (1998) – Art department coordinator
 * Toy Story 2 (1999) – Marketing and creative resources coordinator
 * Monsters, Inc. (2001) – Art department manager
 * Cars (2006) – Production manager, voice of "Boost"
 * Up (2009) – Producer - winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
 * George & A.J. (2009) (short film) - Executive Producer
 * Inside Out (2015) – Producer - winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
 * Riley's First Date? (2015) – Executive Producer
 * Toy Story 4 (2019) – Producer