Fred Seibert's Blog

Many of you know that Frederator Studios started Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival. The second season of screenings has taken over the Nicktoons network during the month of August, and our eight full screenings are airing August 22-29 at midnight.

Once again my festival co-directors are Eric Homan and former Animation Magazine publisher/editor Rita Street, and added to this seaon’s team has been the indefatigable Melissa Wolfe. They’ve been making their way through the hundreds of entries from around the world to cull them down to the final 100 or so that’ll make it to the eight screenings.

Winners? Well, they’re being picked by our all-star judges (seen here from right to left after the top-secret sessions): Mark Hamill (yes, we know he’s in Star Wars, but we love him for all his animation voice acting), last year’s Producer’s Award winner, Elizabeth Ito, Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko (co-creators of the new hit Avatar), Disney feature director Mike Gabriel, and our first kid judge Noah Webb (not pictured). See their choices at Midnight, Sunday, August 28. Tune in. Please. Thank you.