The Burial of Natty Bumppo
A hand-animated film
Awards
The Burial of Natty Bumppo has been shown at the Montreal International Animation Film Festival (2023) and the Bucharest International Animation Festival (2023). It won Best Animated Short at Indie Short Fest in Los Angeles (February 2024) and Best Animated Short at the California International Film Festival (Winter 2024). The Burial of Natty Bumppo was a Semi-Finalist for Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (2023), a Semi-Finalist for the Bavaria International Film Festival (2024), and an Award Winner at the Paris International Short Awards (2024). The film was also selected to be part of PASEO Project 2023 in Taos, New Mexico.
A hand-animated film 40 years in the making
The Burial of Natty Bumppo is the result of a decades-long project by animator Fred Burns. Built from over 28,000 hand-drawn images, it almost never made it to the screen.
In 2019, miraculously, the film was rescued, restored, and digitally mastered by filmmaker Casey Herbert.
