Red Rock Film Festival 2008

24 Frames is a stop-motion animated black comedy mockumentary about a stop-motion animated film production at an art college in the southern U.S. The crew, which consists mainly of ambitious animation students, aspires to adapt a children's book into an animated film to impress the school's president, who also happens to be the director's mother-in-law. Incompetence, artistic differences, and a series of grisly mishaps soon cause the production to spiral out of control as the would-be filmmakers struggle to finish the project.Directed by stop-motion animator and teacher Brad Pattullo, '24 Frames' is a razor-sharp satire of academia, politics, and the animation industry. This puppet film represents three and a half years of work in a kerosene-heated garage in northwest Pennsylvania. Packed with quirky characters, shocking twists, and self-referential film-industry jokes, '24 Frames' is truly a unique and engaging animated short.