Nicktoons Film Festival


The Nicktoons Film 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 world. 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. The 2009 season was the final season of the festival.

Winners

2004 winners

  • Grand Prize: Timmy's Lessons In Nature by Mark Simon and Travis Blaise
  • Producer's Choice Award: Welcome to My Life by Elizabeth Ito

    2005 winners

  • Grand Prize: La Révolution des Crabes by Arthur DePins
  • Producers' Choice: The Naïve Man from Lolliland by J. G. Quintel
  • Student Animator: The Naïve Man from Lolliland by J. G. Quintel
  • Viewers' Choice: Farm Force by Project Firefly

    2006 winners

  • Grand Prize: The Ballad of Sheep 13 by Kyle McQueen
  • Producers' Choice: Super Scout by Amy Poehler
  • Student Animator: Animation Test Pilot by Brad Kinley
  • Viewers' Choice: Sinking Margot by Julie Bergman

    2007 winners

  • Grand Prize: Zoologic by Nicole Mitchell
  • Grand Jury: Zoologic by Nicole Mitchell
  • Producers' Choice: St. Laleeloo by Jiwook Kim
  • Diversity Award: Feb. 18, 2005 by Javier Barboza
  • Student Animator: Bare by Andy Lyon
  • Viewers' Choice: After Oz by Percy Kiyabu

    Episodes

Season 1 (The Nicktoons Film Festival 2004)

This featured the original theme song by Bruce W. Kapler from Timbre House Music, Inc.
  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 (The NEXTOONS: The Nicktoons Film Festival 2005)

This is the last season to use Bruce W. Kapler's theme song.
  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 Mousochist
  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
  52. Project Firefly, created by Ethan Long and produced by Robin Cowie; aired on August 27, 2005

    Season 3 (The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival 2006)

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. This season introduced a new theme song.
  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. Ballyvaughan Story
  14. Doodle of Doom
  15. Juxtaposer
  16. Animation Test Pilot
  17. Engrish Bwudd
  18. Abstract
  19. Breakfast with The King
  20. The Mad Scientist Show: The Transporter
  21. Giant's Kitchen
  22. Crocodile Journals
  23. La Mia Migliore Amica
  24. A Choreography with White-Fronted Geese, Horses, and a Locomotive
  25. Deep Six
  26. Eureka!
  27. Gorilla
  28. The New Guy
  29. The M Man
  30. I Love You Kitty
  31. The Sunshine
  32. Manege Frei
  33. Egg Song
  34. Zeitsprung Timetravels
  35. Exit
  36. Small and Deep, Love Stories
  37. The Passenger
  38. Sinking Margot
  39. The Moustache Contest
  40. Snout
  41. ''Polka''

    Season 4 (2007)

  42. L’amie De Zoe
  43. Zoologic
  44. Saalis
  45. Soñadora
  46. Bare
  47. Striped
  48. Hedgehug
  49. Hominid
  50. Kiwi!
  51. Carried Away
  52. Monster on the Moon
  53. José y Maria
  54. Angst
  55. A Peach for the Teach
  56. Freewheel
  57. Cranks
  58. Feb-18-05
  59. Mortimer Pigmun and His Time Traveling Chums
  60. St. Laleeloo
  61. Barfy the Pig in a Day in the Park
  62. Process Enacted
  63. Old Chestnut
  64. Puppet
  65. Zoologic
  66. After Oz
  67. The Little Dictator
  68. Think Like a Frog
  69. Art's Desire
  70. Loose Change
  71. ''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

2009 was the final season of the festival.
  1. Insert Coin
  2. Kina Sky
  3. Magic Theater
  4. Mariza
  5. No Quarter
  6. Oakley and Bud in 'Rogue UFO'
  7. Otis v. Monster
  8. Pencilmation #7: Malice in Wonderland
  9. Popped
  10. Shiny!
  11. So Close to the Sun
  12. Some Facts About Owls
  13. Squeak
  14. Tang
  15. The History of an Animation
  16. The History of Man Part 2
  17. The Switch
  18. Tickle Me Silly
  19. Ultra Super Sudden Death
  20. Value Blind
  21. Vampirofaga
  22. At Deaths Door
  23. Barfy the Pig: Episode 6
  24. Best Present Ever
  25. Cricket
  26. Deadline
  27. Divers
  28. Flying Boy
  29. Hubo
  30. ''Do Not Feed the Alligators''

    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 recently produced by independent filmmakers around the world. 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, Bathtime in Clerkenwell, Kiwi!, Kenya and Magical Trevor, the Ape Escape trilogy of shorts, The Naive from Loli Land, Charlie & Chunk, The Mouschist, Prey, Hero: 108, Bert, Engrish Bwudd, Skippy, Monster on the Moon, Pigly, Libraryhead, Over the Moon, Feb-18-05, Timmy's Lessons In Nature, Farm Force, Late Night Comedy, Zoologic, Maestro, Zoya the Zebra, PGi-13, The Tale of How, Loco Melones, Rockfish, Super Scout and Welcome to My Life. Certain shorts featured here were produced by Nelvana, and those were also shown on YTV's Funpak, such as The Not-So-Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick, which spawned Sidekick.
To a Man with a Big Nose was selected for the 2006 Fargo Film Festival in addition to being a Nicktoons Film Festival entry, Bathtime in Clerkenwell won three awards in 2004 including one category from Sundance, 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 game series exclusively for Sony's own PlayStation 2 at the time, and the four were precursor shorts—Super Scout, The Naive from Loli Land, Hero: 108 and Welcome to My Life—would eventually become precursor to Nickelodeon's own The Mighty B! and Cartoon Network's Regular Show and Hero: 108, as well as the latter's failed pilot of the same name.
Simultaneously, Frederator has produced 250 original short cartoon films with several cartoon shorts "incubators," including : What A Cartoon!, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, 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, Larry & Steve, Kenny and the Chimp, Grim & Evil, The Fairly OddParents, My Life as a Teenage Robot, ChalkZone, Nite Fite, Fanboy & Chum Chum, Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors, Rocket Dog, and Bee and PuppyCat.