Directed by Evan Viera
Hampshire College, USA
Sycamore Eve is an imaginative and captivating short film about a young girl's effort to protect her planet's most sacred resource.
Director's Statement
Sycamore Eve is the culmination of my narrative and experimental work at Hampshire College. It also shows the deep relationship I strive to create between the picture and sound. When I began storyboarding Sycamore Eve, I also started writing melodies on the piano. While I drafted the concept art, I composed environmental soundscapes to accompany them. This process I believe has created a symbiotic relationship between the picture and sound. Because both developed simultaneously, they are infused with eachother's ideas. My hope for Sycamore Eve, is to immerse the audience into a deep and complex world where the subtle nuances weave the viewer into this sureal and unfamiliar tale.
Category: Animation
Run-Time: 6:40
School: Hampshire College, USA
Year of production: 2007
Shooting format: MiniDV
Screening format: BetaSP (NTSC)
People/Crew
Girl Kayla Aruda
Producer Evan Viera
Writer/Director Evan Viera
Original Music Evan Viera
Filmmaker Bio
Evan Viera
Emerging filmmaker Evan Viera graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in Computer Graphics and Animation. Independent of his course work, Evan also pursued his passion for music. Aside from scoring his own animations, he also composed the music for several award winning short films. To date, Sycamore Eve is Evan's most ambitious film. He started the project at the beginning of his final year at Hampshire and finished it about 6 months after graduation. Currently Evan teaches animation in Beijing and is also working on the script for his next short film.
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