A short movie based on a project by Kathe Koja called "Under The Poppy".

Combines shadow puppets and actors in a graphic designed world.

Directed by Diane Cheklich
Music by Joe Stacey
Puppets, Art Design and Editing by Al Bogdan
Opening/Closing Titles by Aaron Mustamaa
Story by Kathe Koja

Factoid 1: The puppet stage show had up to four people operating the puppets using rods... and there was a ton of laughing, as you might expect.

Factoid 2: We couldn't get all the actors to show when shooting the final live scene, so we shot the center female on her own and composited her with the other two actors.

Factoid 3: Joe wrote the music as soon as Kathe described the project, before we'd started making the movie. We liked it so much we fit the movie to the music.

visit underthepoppy.com for more.