Nicktoons Announces Call for Entries for “Nextoons” Film Festival
[via press release]
Nicktoons Announces World Wide Call for Entries for Second Film Festival, Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival
NY, NY—March 28, 2005 — After a highly successful first season, with hundreds of entries received from around the world, Nicktoons joins forces again with Frederator Studios to showcase the diversity of independent animated filmmaking with the renamed Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival. Animators from around the world can submit entries from March 28th through June 17th. Entry forms can be downloaded on www.nicktoons.com. Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival is looking for a large selection of short films created in any style of animation which are 10-minutes in length or under.
“Since day one, the Nicktoons brand has been built on creator driven content and a commitment to animated filmmaking from around the world. So we’re excited to begin a new call for entries and bring back a second season of the Film Festival–which upholds the same spirit and goals as our channel,” said Keith Dawkins, General Manager, Nicktoons.
“Once again, we’re excited to be working with our partners at Nicktoons. We appreciate their dedication to the medium and the bandwidth they’re providing so that we can air this, seldom seen, yet amazing content from around the world,” said Fred Seibert, Festival Executive Director and president of Frederator Studios.
Submitted shorts will be chosen by a pre-selection jury and will air on Nicktoons beginning in August. A grand jury will select a $10,000 grand prize winner from the top ten films chosen by the pre-selection jury. The Festival will include a new online component allowing viewers to log-on to the Nicktoons website (www.nicktoons.com) and vote for their favorite films.
The winners of the first Nicktoons Film Festival, filmmakers Mark Simon and Travis Blaise of Orlando, Fla., were awarded the $10,000 Grand Prize for their short film, Timmy’s Lessons in Nature, a 2D-animated, comedic look at what not to do when venturing into the outdoors.
Presented with the 2004 Nicktoons Producers’ Choice Award and a copy of Bauhaus Software’s Mirage was Elizabeth Ito for Welcome to My Life. The California Institute of the Arts student film uses black and white, hand-drawn images and a Creature Comforts approach to explore the daily lives of misunderstood monsters.