Nicktoons Film Festival


The Nicktoons Animation Festival was an annual event that was created by producer Fred Seibert and produced for its first three years by his Frederator Studios. The festival featured a selection of animated shorts from around the globe. Shorts selected for the festival had the chance to be aired on Nicktoons Network, online and to be showcased at a live event in Los Angeles in October. Several prizes were awarded each year. Animators under 18 years old were eligible to enter the Greater Creator Contest. 2009 was the final season of the festival.

Winners

2004 winners

Season 1 (The Nicktoons Film Festival 2004)

  1. Charlie & Chunk
  2. Timmy's Lessons in Nature
  3. It Could Be Worse
  4. Childhood Trauma #17
  5. Lucky Penny
  6. The Manly Bee
  7. Day Off the Dead
  8. April
  9. The Thing with No Head
  10. Rotting Hills: Clark's New Home
  11. Jack & Jill
  12. Attack of the Note Sheep
  13. At Wit's Vend
  14. The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps: Serenity Now
  15. Boing Boing
  16. Scout Says
  17. Magnetism
  18. Atomic Love
  19. Birdon
  20. Ape Escape, Part I
  21. Winged Devices
  22. Miracle Koala: Belt for Punishment
  23. Sucker
  24. Monkey Fuss
  25. Bert
  26. Heads, You Lose!
  27. Manbird
  28. Monstories: Fine Diners
  29. Interrogating Ernie
  30. Hairy Affairs
  31. Lou & Costa: Burglar Welcome Mat
  32. Roy & Dog
  33. Thirsty
  34. Dia de Los Muertos
  35. Skippy
  36. The Not So Heroic Adventures of Sidekick: Dooms Day Dog
  38. A Rhinocervs
  39. Tell Me Not to Worry
  40. Happy Mania
  41. Welcome To My Life
  42. Kactus Kid
  43. Robot Family: The Slick Salesman
  44. Wingnut
  45. Medusa: Pilot
  46. Martini and Meatballs: Avery's Game
  47. Gruesomenstein's Monsters: Freddie and the Yeti
  48. PGi-13
  49. Hero: 108
  50. Josh W. Eats a Bug
  51. Zoya the Zebra
  52. Doggie Door
  53. Bottom of the 9th
  54. The Turn-Off
  55. It's My Turn
  56. Kenya
  57. Coolman: Deep Sea Blues
  58. Haina: A Concert
  59. Gumbusters
  60. Ape Escape, Part II
  61. The Wild Wild Circus Company: Fishy Memories
  62. Loco Melones
  63. Playing Cricket
  64. Beach Booty
  65. Fool Throttle
  66. Monkey, Monkey
  67. Rustbuckets: The Last Rainforest
  68. Six Snails Snoring
  69. Pigly
  70. Much Ado About Ice Cream
  71. Shlub
  72. Polygon Family II
  73. The Appointment
  74. Magical Trevor
  75. Nagymamma
  76. Rockfish
  77. The Tribe
  78. Bath Time
  79. Harold Rosenbaum Chartered Accountant Extreme: Ledger Boy Liquidation
  80. Minue
  81. Ape Escape, Part III

    Season 2

NEXTOONS: The Nicktoons Film Festival 2005)
  1. La Révolution des Crabes
  2. Hobbies: Model Bus Collector
  3. Runaway Bathtub
  4. Unmarked
  5. Those Scurvy Rascals
  6. Her Teddy Bear
  7. Blue Dress
  8. Man's First Friend
  9. Terrance Eats Knowledge
  10. Up, Up & Away
  11. Like Pandas
  12. Pen vs. Pencil
  13. Plumber
  14. Anthem
  15. Peeves: Toilet Water
  16. Short Circuit
  17. Soup
  18. A Sixty Second Tragedy
  19. The Naive Man from Lolliland
  20. Tricks for a Treat
  21. Prey
  22. Chris Walker's Unfortunate Alphabet
  23. The Mouschist
  24. First Kiss
  25. Maestro
  26. The Gross Hunger
  27. Getting Ice Cream
  28. Out of Beat
  29. Mig Said...
  30. Help!
  31. The Z-Files
  32. The Monster Within
  33. To a Man with a Big Nose
  34. Mille
  35. Over the Moon
  36. Anaka
  37. Oh, Dear!
  38. A Short Visit to Toy Town
  39. Love Affair
  40. Five Informercials for Dentists
  41. Defective
  42. Betty
  43. Nulbur
  44. In-Out
  45. The Laws of Gravity
  46. The Life of a Mime
  47. Fee Fi Fo Fum
  48. Sing-a-Long with Roosevelt
  49. Un-Doo
  50. Egghunt
  51. Farm Force Project Firefly, created by Ethan Long and produced by Robin Cowie; aired on August 27, 2005
The 2006 Nicktoons Network Animation Festival aired on Nicktoons Saturday, August 26, 2006– Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Winners were announced on Thursday, August 31, 2006.

Season 3 (The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival 2006)

  1. A Great Big Robot from Outer Space Ate My Homework
  2. The Tale of How
  3. Great Apespectations
  4. Handshake
  5. Bip Bip
  6. Dog Worries
  7. The Ballad of Sheep 13
  8. Late Night Comedy
  9. La Tete Dans les Nuages
  10. Super Scout
  11. Libraryhead
  12. Penguin Day Spa Commercial
  13. Doodle of Doom
  14. Juxtaposer
  15. Animation Test Pilot
  16. Engrish Bwudd
  17. Abstract
  18. Breakfast with The King
  19. The Mad Scientist Show: The Transporter
  20. Giant's Kitchen
  21. Crocodile Journals
  22. La Mia Migliore Amica
  23. A Choreography with White-Fronted Geese, Horses, and a Locomotive
  24. Deep Six
  25. Eureka!
  26. Gorilla
  27. The New Guy
  28. The M Man
  29. I Love You Kitty
  30. The Sunshine
  31. Manege Frei
  32. Egg Song
  33. Zeitsprung Timetravels
  34. Exit
  35. Small and Deep, Love Stories
  36. The Passenger
  37. Sinking Margot
  38. The Moustache Contest
  39. Snout
  40. Polka

    Season 4 (2007)

  41. L’amie De Zoe
  42. Zoologic
  43. Saalis
  44. Soñadora
  45. Bare
  46. Striped
  47. Hedgehug
  48. Hominid
  49. Kiwi!
  50. Carried Away
  51. Monster on the Moon
  52. José y Maria
  53. Angst
  54. A Peach for the Teach
  55. Freewheel
  56. Cranks
  57. Feb-18-05
  58. Mortimer Pigmun and His Time Traveling Chums
  59. St. Laleeloo
  60. Barfy the Pig in a Day in the Park
  61. Process Enacted
  62. Old Chestnut
  63. Puppet
  64. Zoologic
  65. After Oz
  66. The Little Dictator
  67. Think Like a Frog
  68. Art's Desire
  69. Loose Change
  70. Insomnia

    Season 5 (2008)

Nicktoons Network Animation Festival: 5th Year Animation Matters
  1. Alien Abduction
  2. Once Upon a Tyme
  3. Lilium Urbanus
  4. Red & Blue
  5. Paper Cut
  6. Theatrum Comicum of Insects
  7. Boogie and Diggie
  8. The Adventures of Jane
  9. Dive
  10. Mock and Boy'd: Get Out Of My Tree
  11. Getting Suspended
  12. Kid Show
  13. Hal Mang
  14. The Matchbook
  15. La Lune
  16. The Space Burger
  17. Galactic Adventure Quest in Space
  18. Henshin
  19. Sheep
  20. Come Back Sweetheart
  21. Monster Movie
  22. El Mono
  23. Solar
  24. Bathtime In Clerkenwell
  25. A Faery's Tale
  26. Sticky the Stick
  27. Go Nuts Animation
  28. Pea on the Screws
  29. Pajama Gladiator

    Season 6: Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009

  30. Insert Coin
  31. Kina Sky
  32. Magic Theater
  33. Mariza
  34. No Quarter
  35. Oakley and Bud in 'Rogue UFO'
  36. Otis v. Monster
  37. Pencilmation #7: Malice in Wonderland
  38. Popped
  39. Shiny!
  40. So Close to the Sun
  41. Some Facts About Owls
  42. Squeak
  43. Tang
  44. The History of an Animation
  45. The History of Man Part 2
  46. The Switch
  47. Tickle Me Silly
  48. Ultra Super Sudden Death
  49. Value Blind
  50. Vampirofaga
  51. At Deaths Door
  52. Barfy the Pig: Episode 6
  53. Best Present Ever
  54. Cricket
  55. Deadline
  56. Divers
  57. Flying Boy
  58. Hubo
  59. Do Not Feed the Alligators
2009 was the final season of the festival.

Legacy

has persisted in the tradition of surfacing new talent, characters, and series in several ways, with The Nicktoons Film Festival being the first to present short cartoons already produced by independent filmmakers around the globe. This tradition has continued online with their Channel Frederator Network, the world's largest animation network, with over 3000 members who produce and program their own YouTube animation channels. Some of the most notable entries include To a Man with a Big Nose, Kiwi!, Kenya and Magical Trevor, the Ape Escape trilogy of shorts, The Mouschist, Prey, Pigly, Loco Melones, Super Scout, The Naive from Loli Land, and Welcome to My Life.
To a Man with a Big Nose was selected for the 2006 Fargo Film Festival in addition to being a Nicktoons Film Festival Entry, Kiwi! and both weebl's Kenya and Magical Trevor were considered major internet memes at that time, The Mouschist was created by Courage the Cowardly Dog creator John R. Dilworth, the Ape Escape trilogy of shorts promoted the games at the time, and the three were precursor shorts—Super Scout, The Naive from Loli Land, and Welcome to My Life—would eventually become precursor to Nickelodeon's own The Mighty B! and both Cartoon Network's Regular Show and a failed pilot for Welcome to My Life.
Simultaneously, Frederator has produced 250 original short cartoon films with several cartoon shorts "incubators," including : What A Cartoon!, The Meth Minute 39, Random! Cartoons, Too Cool! Cartoons, and GO! Cartoons. These laboratories have spun off notable series like: Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Fairly OddParents, Nite Fite, Fanboy & Chum Chum, Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors, Rocket Dog, and Bee and PuppyCat.