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Corner Cuisine

A young chef in a future cyberpunk megalopolis takes over the family restaurant with his aunt. However, he may not be up to the challenge and when an inspector threatens to shut the place down, what drastic actions will "nephew" take to keep the place running?

  • Evan Carter
    Director
  • Evan Carter
    Writer
  • Evan Carter
    Editor
  • Alexander Moore
    Composer
  • Evan Carter
    Composer
  • Nathan Bradley
    Key Cast
    "Nephew"
  • Hannah Dubner
    Key Cast
    "Auntie"
  • XioVox
    Key Cast
    "Inspector"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    sci-fi
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 51 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 21, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - DePaul University
  • Sci-On Film Festival
    Reno
    United States
    May 1, 2024
    Worldwide Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Las Vegas Premiere Festival
    Las Vegas
    United States
    August 9, 2024
    Nevada Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Route 66 Festival
    Springfield, Illinois
    United States
    November 1, 2024
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Evan Carter

Illustration, design, VR filmmaking, videography, animation, and even live analog visuals are central to Evan Carter's work. Including independent projects and commercial work for entities such as SONY.

Evan is a Swiss Army Knife of textures, mediums, and techniques with the common theme of psychedelia in color and dreamlike nature.

As a child, Evan began his journey in stop-motion with his LEGOs, and in adolescence moved to 2D animation, psychedelic artwork, as well as creating short films inside VR that were released online.

During his time in the VR film scene, he gained a following of various volunteers and passionate people from all over the world who collaborated as actors or other crew in his films.

In college, while working on his documentary VR: A Digital Frontier, Evan picked up live-action videography and quickly got various jobs filming events or for local short films.

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Director Statement

Corner Cuisine is the culmination of my everything I have learned and completed as an animator. The senior year animation capstone film is the final project in higher education for the field and ever since I started animation ten years ago as a child, I watched other capstones imagining what mine would be. None of it mattered however when the time came, and all of my previous ideas weren't good enough and weren't practical for the deadlines. In the span of an hour, I wrote down what would become Corner Cuisine which is based on a preexisting sci-fi universe of my design. Countless hours and nights of pure passion were put into the world of this film with characters and story that I can be greatly satisfied with in my journey as an animator. This film I feel earned me my wings.

If my younger self who was starting in animation saw this film, I feel he would be very proud.