Cory Edwards

During his career so far, Edwards has been involved in almost every creative area of moviemaking, including serving as writer, director, producer, actor, animator, art director and editor.

Edwards has been entertaining since childhood, and his love for the fantastic is still evident in the space helmets, vintage ray guns, and artwork all over his office. At an early age, his love for storytelling was always evolving. He moved from cartoons to elaborate puppet shows to radio shows on a tape recorder. But when he discovered the family’s Super 8 camera, filmmaking became his ultimate hobby. He shot everything from adventure serials to superhero comedies, complete with miniatures, animation and no-budget special effects. “It was no surprise to my parents to come home on any given day and see some paper maché monstrosity in the front yard,” says Edwards.

After college, Edwards worked at a production company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, honing his craft on music videos and commercials. Five years later he launched Blue Yonder Films with his brother and three friends in the business. It was with Blue Yonder that Cory produced and acted in his brother’s feature debut, CHILLICOTHE, a live action coming-of-age drama that was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival in 1999.

Edwards eventually made the trek to the west coast, writing and directing several animated projects for direct-to-video markets, drawing all the storyboards and even designing the sets and characters himself. “I’ve been hands-on in a lot of areas,” he notes. “But I love the collaborative process that happens on a movie, when a lot of talented people come together to produce one big idea.”

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