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Nicktoons Network receives 3100 global entries for Animation Festival
 
Indiantelevision.com Team
(7 August 2007 5:00 pm)
 

MUMBAI: Nicktoons Network, Nickelodeon's 24 hour animation network, has received its greatest number of entries for the fourth annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, the multiplatform animation festival.

This year the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, in association with Frederator Studios and Radar Cartoons, received over 3,100 submissions from around the world, including Latvia, Australia, Finland, The Netherlands and Taiwan.

As part of this activity, Nicktoons Network will air one new short film entry throughout the month of August every night at 10 pm (ET), culminating with an hour-long "Best Of" special on 31 August. The special will feature the top ten entries from around the world and will count down to the winner of the Grand Jury Award as decided by a panel of celebrity judges.

Plus, one talented Grand Prize winner will be awarded the Nickelodeon Development Award -- a first-time prize of $20,000 for the winner to develop his or her original concept with the Nickelodeon Development team.

"In its fourth year, the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival continues to grow in both scope and scale," said Nicktoons Network VP and GM Keith Dawkins. "Filmmakers and industry tastemakers from around the globe continue to recognize the festival as a vehicle for the development of truly original animated content and we are proud to be such a destination."

A jury of celebrity judges -- Steve Oedekerk, Patrick Warburton, Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls), Michael Dougherty (co-writer Superman Returns, X-Men 2), Joanna Quinn (academy award nominee, Famous Fred) and Mark Shirra (2006 Producer's Choice Award winner) -- will select the Grand Jury Award of $10,000 to be announced on-air during the "Best Of" special.

 
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