A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music’s most innovative minds.
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Film Cast:
- Pharrell Williams (voice): Pharrell Williams
- Chad Hugo (voice): Chad Hugo
- Gwen Stefani (voice): Gwen Stefani
- Kendrick Lamar (voice): Kendrick Lamar
- Timbaland (voice): Timbaland
- Justin Timberlake (voice): Justin Timberlake
- Busta Rhymes (voice): Busta Rhymes
- Jay-Z (voice): Jay-Z
- Snoop Dogg (voice): Snoop Dogg
- Morgan Neville (voice): Morgan Neville
- Pusha T (voice): Pusha T
- N.O.R.E (voice): N.O.R.E.
- Shay Haley (voice): Shay Haley
- Oprah Winfrey (voice – archival footage): Oprah Winfrey
- Missy Elliott (Voice): Missy Elliott
- Helen Lasichanh (voice): Helen Lasichanh
- Jimmy Iovine (voice): Jimmy Iovine
- Rob Walker (voice): Rob Walker
- Teddy Riley (voice): Teddy Riley
- Mimi Valdés (voice): Mimi Valdés
- Teacher (voice): Tyler, The Creator
- Carolyn Williams (voice): Carolyn Williams
- Pharoah Williams (voice): Pharoah Williams
- Rocket Williams (voice): Rocket Williams
- Carl Sagan (archival audio): Carl Sagan
Film Crew:
- Producer: Mimi Valdés
- Executive Producer: Jill Wilfert
- Songs: Pharrell Williams
- Writer: Morgan Neville
- Producer: Shani Saxon
- Executive Producer: Keith Malone
- Producer: Caitrin Rogers
- Supervising Sound Editor: Al Nelson
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Pete Horner
- Editor: Jason Zeldes
- Editor: Aaron Wickenden
- Musician: Michael Andrews
- Animation Director: Howard E. Baker
- Associate Producer: Stephanie Leke
- Associate Producer: Sule Murray
- Consulting Producer: Jason King
- Consulting Producer: Nora Chute
- Line Producer: Jessica Goldstein
- Writer: Oscar Vazquez
- Production Manager: Zach Greenspan
- Production Manager: Ben Warhit
- Archival Footage Coordinator: Corbin Swanlund
- Sound Mixer: Mike Larson
- Assistant Editor: Richard Andrews
- Assistant Editor: Eric Bumatay
- Assistant Editor: Yemane Deneke
- Assistant Editor: Avo Kambourian
- Assistant Editor: Evan Sardarian
- Assistant Editor: David Soto
- Assistant Editor: Julia Szromba
- Storyboard Artist: Ajamu Frasier
- Post Production Coordinator: Daniel Larios
- Post Production Coordinator: Angie Rhodes
- Production Coordinator: Jane Kelly Kosek
- Sound Mixer: Todd Burke
- Music Editor: Todd Kasow
- Archival Footage Research: Mark Ward
- Sound Mixer: Andrew Coleman
- Sound Mixer: Carl Gaffney
- Sound Mixer: Dennis Hamlin
- Sound Mixer: Jade Howard
- Sound Mixer: Rick Lawrence
- Sound Mixer: Barry London
- Sound Mixer: Kristen Olmo
- Sound Mixer: Brooks Reid
- Sound Mixer: Christian Storms
- Sound Mixer: Emily Strong
- Sound Mixer: Erik Whitestone
- Score Engineer: Alexander Thompson
- Musician: Robert Earl Walter
- Musician: Gabe Noel
- Musician: Kenneth Crouch
- Production Executive: Rich Buhrman
- Production Consultant: David Rohde
- Documentation & Support: Will Mavronicolas
- Production Accountant: Richard K. Chung
- Camera Operator: Justin Machnik
- Production Assistant: Noah Baldwin
- Legal Services: Carissa Knol
- Legal Services: Jon Segal
- Clearances Coordinator: Robin Urdang
- Animation Supervisor: Peter Anderson
- Animation: Ereny Alphons Hanna
- Assistant Art Director: Bjarne Hansen
- Storyboard: Bella Gutierrez
- Animation Coordinator: Matthew Burden
- Animation Coordinator: Caitlin Hilts-Opliger
- Animation Coordinator: Allison Leung
- Animation: Mike Bujniewicz
- Art Direction: Venkataramanan K
- Storyboard Artist: Theresa Cullen
- Storyboard Artist: David Lux
- Storyboard Artist: Chris Paluszek
- Storyboard Artist: Darryl Kidder
- Storyboard Artist: Steven E. Gordon
- Storyboard Artist: Aaron Clark
- Animation Production Assistant: Angellica Cress
- Art Designer: Richard Camastra
- Art Designer: Alan Howard
- Art Designer: Beth Hughes
- Art Designer: Jennifer Lee
- Art Designer: Franck Louis-Marie
- Art Designer: Jason Slavin
- Art Designer: Laurel Van Patten
- Art Designer: Sara Walter
- Art Designer: Molly Woolfson
- Art Designer: Scott Sherman
- Art Designer: John Lee
- Art Designer: Josh Vietze
- Art Designer: Sylvia Liu
- Art Designer: Chris Mitchell
- Animation: Paul Chandler Carrera
- Animation: Chris Miller
- Animation Supervisor: Josh Riley
- Concept Artist: Michel Gagné
- Compositing Artist: Ruben Athouel
- Compositing Artist: Jon Perez
- Layout Supervisor: Nicholas Manfredi
- VFX Supervisor: Eric Mattson
- Effects Supervisor: William Chen
- Lead Animator: Charlie Grubel
- Animation: Wasi Ali Khan
- Animation: Emily Kimes
- Animation: Roy Margalit
- Animation Production Assistant: Madison Conner
- Animation Production Assistant: Christine Simpson
- Animation Production Assistant: Sarah Hoffstadter
- CG Artist: Edwin Gautreau
- CG Artist: Louis Morillo
- CG Artist: Sean Rodrigues
- CG Artist: Christian Rafael Castillo Suazo
- Animation Manager: Quaid Kocur
- Animation Manager: Lin Cong
- Animation Supervisor: Raphael Bick
- Character Designer: Amir Mahdi Qurbani
- Character Designer: Jose Jacob
- 3D Artist: Jeff Capili
- Concept Artist: Maggie Capili
- Colorist: Noah Miller
- Animation: Matthew Roser-Brown
- Animation Production Assistant: Michelle McPhillips
- Art Designer: Lauren Walker
- Concept Artist: Susan Bin
- Concept Artist: Chad Sugg
- Concept Artist: Richard Mather
- Concept Artist: Ross Ciuppa
- Concept Artist: Nicole Herrera
- Concept Artist: Sheena Holm
- Concept Artist: Iana Leschenko
- 3D Modeller: Tessa Comrie
- Animation: Nicolas Carlier
- Researcher: Beth Marks
- 3D Artist: Clayton Peterson
- 3D Artist: Henk Coetzee
- VFX Artist: Brandon Carter
- Controller: Navneet Dhaliwal
- Finance: Peter Bourdon
- Legal Services: Roberto Facundus
- Animation Supervisor: Veerendra Patil
- Animation: Ishani Priyamvada
- Animation Manager: Divayansh Bargotra
- Animation Manager: Kinnari Gandhi
- Animation Manager: Satish Nanda
- Animation Manager: Sandeep T
- CG Supervisor: Rakshith Hoskote
- CG Supervisor: Jakob Rokkedahl
- Lighting Supervisor: C.C. Srinivasan
- Animation Coordinator: Aditi Desai
- Animation Coordinator: Deepa P J
- Animation Coordinator: Suraj Jayakumar
- Animation Coordinator: Amy Clara Alex
- Animation Coordinator: Joydeep Biswas
- Animation Coordinator: Kaushik Mohan Das
- Animation Coordinator: Harikrishnan Mohanan
- Animation Coordinator: Abir Saha
- Animation Coordinator: Riya Kohli
- Animation Coordinator: Subalaxmi C
- Rigging Supervisor: Yuvaraj Bagalkot
- Lighting Artist: Prem Kumar
- Lighting Artist: Supratim Sinha
- Art Designer: Aditi Kiran
- Art Designer: Anne Neyens
- Art Designer: Ankush Cholia
- Art Designer: Arya Viswanath
- Art Designer: Atmika Atmana
- Art Designer: Juhi Agrawal
- Art Designer: Minakshi Joshi
- Art Designer: Aishwarya Bhatkal
- Animation: Shiva Prasad M Patil
- Art Designer: Agnisesh Setlur Srinivas
- Art Designer: Sankar Ganesh
- Art Designer: Raymund Bermudez
- Lighting Artist: Pushpa Latha
- Modeling: CH Abhishek Deo
- Modeling: Ujwal Khaling
- Modeling: Shalton Correya
- Modeling: Giovani Ivasco
- Animation: Renato Becker
- Modeling: Rohit Krishnan
- Modeling: Caio Vinicius
- Modeling: Akshay Raj
- Animation Supervisor: Jeevanand Narayan Kunnummal
- Animation Supervisor: Viru Sohal
- Lead Animator: Saikat Das
- Lead Animator: Ajeesh A
- Lead Animator: Uday H
- Animation: Apoorva Chitnis
- Animation: James Ferreira
- Animation: Visagh Chandran
- Animation: Marcelo Carvalho
- Animation: Hemanth Popale
- Animation: Prateek Rai
- Animation: Abhijeet Patri
- Animation: Abhishek Kiran
- Animation: Adithya Girish
- Animation: Aliva Das
- Animation: Amal S. Kumar
- Animation: Amin Shaijaz
- Animation: Ankit Rameshbhai Panchal
- Animation: Arjun G. Prathap
- Animation: Binaya Shrestha
- Animation: George Antony
- Animation: Godson P. Jose
- Animation: Gokul Ys
- Animation: Greeshma Gopukumar
- Animation: Kunal Karmakar
- Animation: Manuprasad M J
- Animation: Ngawang Khenrab
- Animation: Pavan Athreyas
- Animation: Ponkarthick J
- Animation: Pradip Sikdar
- Animation: Pranay V G
- Animation: Priyajit Mondal
- Animation: Rajlal R S
- Animation: Rakesh Bera
- Animation: Ratheesh Sundarraj
- Animation: Rinika Chatterjee
- Animation: Sajan Abdulsalam
- Animation: Sazid Shrestha
- Animation: Shashank Bhausaheb Shinde
- Animation: Soumya Mondal
- Animation: Subhadip Ghosh
- Animation: Subhendu Pradhan
- Animation: Subigya Tuladhar
- Animation: Sujith K S
- Animation: Sumanth Kumar
- Animation: Swati Sharma
- Animation: Unni Krishnan R
- Animation: Venkata Balakrishna Narina
- Animation: Vishnu V. Vijai
- Animation: Ramanan N
- Animation: Aakash Ghazu
- Animation: Oviya K
- Animation: Vishal G
- Animation: Vaibhay Agarwal
- Animation: Jennyson Christopher H
- Animation: V. Vinay Chidamana
- Animation: Amanzhan Makhmetov
- Animation: Karthik P B
- Animation: Deepak R
- Animation: Nevin Varghese Biju
- Animation: Devesh D
- Animation: Joel George Johnson
- Animation: Yogeshwaran S
- Animation: Aniket Chaurasia
- Animation: Sakthi Krishnan
- Animation: Akhila Murali
- Animation: Praveen S
- Animation: Roshan R Padmashali
- Animation: Vighnesh J M
- Animation Supervisor: Loïc Miermont
- Layout: Craig D. Clarke
- Animation Supervisor: Christel Pougeoise
- Layout: Ashleigh Cloke
- Layout: Erik Newbold
- Animation: Yehonatan Johnny Rubinstein
- Animation: Leonardo Bitti Centini
- Animation: Jacob Taylor
- Animation: Scott Keizer-Haycraft
- Animation: Oscar Cook
- Animation: Michelle Fedomak
- Animation: Jake Anthony Davis
- Animation: Monique Nguyen
- Animation Coordinator: Jocy Evans
- Animation Production Assistant: Harry Donnellan
- Animation: Simon Scales
- Animation: J D S Marshall
- Animation: Jennifer Montenegro Q
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Cat Sanders
- Compositing Supervisor: Benjamin James Ying
- Compositing Supervisor: Iman Javaherypour
- Lighting Manager: Caelum Beckinsale
- Lighting Manager: Dylan Browne
- Lighting Manager: Alex Ferrabetta
- Visual Effects: Rup Roy Choudhury
- Visual Effects: Mark Williams
- VFX Supervisor: Rangi Sutton
- VFX Production Coordinator: Jac Choryniak
- Lighting Supervisor: Lulian Buliga
- Lighting Supervisor: Luke Harris
- Animation Supervisor: Bruno Simões
- 3D Artist: Ignazio Acerenza
- 3D Artist: Carlos Nogueras
- 3D Modeller: Brian Martinez
- 3D Modeller: Maria Carmen Pallarols
- 3D Modeller: Marta Viaplana
- Intern: Joana Oliveira
- Animation Supervisor: Kamil Adam Janko
- 3D Modeller: Filip Bałdyga
- 3D Artist: Paweł Kamiński
- 3D Artist: Maciej Ostaszewski
- 3D Artist: Julia Laska
- 3D Artist: Wiktor Korcz
- 3D Artist: Amelia Janko
- Concept Artist: Sava Komitski
- Art Direction: Atanas Filipoy
- Concept Artist: Jonas Hoellinger
- Concept Artist: Margarita Stamenova
- Concept Artist: Micol Ganzerli
- Concept Artist: Tsvetan Stankoy
- Concept Artist: Atanas Filipov
- Key Rigging Grip: Eduardo Rodriguez Contreras
- Compositing Artist: Octavio Quintero Villalvazo
- Compositing Artist: Jorge Mota Morales
- Lighting Artist: Brenda López Araiza Barba
- Finance: Álvaro González
- Animation: Bernardo Ramírez Toledo
- Animation: Yadira Pérez
- Animation: Franklin Eras
- Animation: Alma Rosa Medina Martínez
- Intern: Antonio Novia Madera
- Digital Intermediate Colorist: Andrea Chlebak
- Digital Intermediate Producer: Will Beaton
- Color Assistant: Weiyi Ang
- Color Assistant: Emily Cramer
- Color Assistant: Rudy Pesci
- Digital Intermediate Editor: Lisa Tutunjian
- VFX Artist: Chaddy Cole
- Digital Intermediate: Andrew Minogue
- Digital Intermediate: Gino Volpe
- Digital Intermediate: Jorge Piniella
- Digital Intermediate: Matt Mamie
- Digital Intermediate: Chloe Bowman
- Supervising Producer: Zara Park
- Head of Production: Michael Dillon
- Sound Effects Editor: Pascal Garneau
- Sound Effects Editor: Luke Dunn Gielmuda
- Dialogue Editor: Matthew Hartman
- Dialogue Editor: Brad Semenoff
- Supervising Sound Editor: Andree Lin
- Foley Artist: Sean England
- Foley Mixer: Richard Duarte
- Sound Mix Technician: Trisha Golec
- Editorial Services: Scott Theakston
- Post Production Accountant: Jessica Engel
- Head of Production: Jon Null
- General Manager: Josh Lowden
- Thanks: Amanda Silverman
- Thanks: Jad Dayeh
- Thanks: KD Davison
- Thanks: Michelle Bueno
- Thanks: Robin Thicke
- Thanks: Shoko Suzuki
- Thanks: Stacey Wood
- Thanks: Takashi Murakami
Movie Reviews:
- CJ: I adored this movie
- For background info, I love Pharrell. He is my favorite artist and he has been for a long time now. My parents listen to that type of music so I got it from them. I love his music. So I was going in expecting a fun time with great music and I would probably learn a thing or two. But damn, I got so much more. I love the way Pharrell thinks. The way he sees life. It might seem crazy what I’m about to say but this movie changed my perspective on things. On life. The music was amazing just as expected. A lot of Pharrell’s music is nostalgic to me. So hearing these songs just made me feel so nostalgic. The movie is funny too. Not the funniest thing ever but it is funny at times. Guys, don’t compare this to the other Lego movies that came before. They are wildly different types of films. So just because it’s a movie using Lego as their animation style, don’t compare them. I won’t lie with you and say I didn’t get teary eyed at parts of this movie. Cause I feel what he’s feeling. I know. Probably not in the same exact way but similar ways. Just an all around inspiring film. It’s inspired me to just start. It’s never too early to start on your dream. After Hurricane Milton making me and everyone in Florida stressed and not in a good mood, this is something I needed. It made me…**_happy _**
- **_9.5/10_**
- CinemaSerf: Pharrell Williams has decided to tell us a story of his life thus far using Lego as the creative conduit. The Lego bit is quite impressive and creative, the rest of it is really neither here nor there. Perhaps that’s because he is just too young to present us with a compendium of his achievments. The boy from Virginia Beach lucking out when a big noise producer spots his band “The Neptunes” and gives them a chance, his persistence to get noticed, the undulation of his fame, his struggles with success and failure, friendships and family. His increasingly pivotal position in African American culture is all laid out like a yellow brick road, bumps and all, but none of it is particularity interesting. It isn’t that different from the story that could be told by almost anyone trying to make it in the entertainment industry – actors, singers, musicians. There are the occasional graphics to tell us who is who, but the lego-fication of the animation sometimes makes it quite difficult to tell the characters apart and it does rely on quite a bit of knowledge of the man’s career and of hip-hop to take much from it. It also doesn’t really let us appreciate the music. Not that it needed to be a portmanteau of music videos, but the very thing that made and makes him relevant to so many hardly features at all. It’s an imaginative production to look at, but the substance is lacking on just about every front.
- good.film: Our full review here: good.film/guide/piece-by-piece-is-2024s-most-surprising-and-inspiring-movie
- Oscar-winner Morgan Neville’s new music bio-documentary, PIECE BY PIECE is smart, uplifting and wondrous. The whole “LEGO thing” seems like a bizarre way to encapsulate of one of the millennium’s most unpredictable musical talents, but it makes sensational sense when you get to know Pharrell and figure out how his mind ticks.
- Non-music fans might be tempted to wave Piece by Piece away, but with its focus on the energy we share and the space we occupy, it’s a surprisingly holistic experience for anyone. It’s not so much a film about music as it is about inspiration, and the explosive kaleidoscope of visual creativity on screen truly makes Piece by Piece stand out.
- Our full review here: good.film/guide/piece-by-piece-is-2024s-most-surprising-and-inspiring-movie
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