Nicktoons Networks Animation Festivalhttp://nicktoonsnetwork.nick.com/home.htmlThe Nicktoons Network Animation Festival is back for it’s 5th year! An event founded in 2004 to showcase the diversity of worldwide animation filmmaking, The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival is the largest multiplatform animation festival in North America. The festival features the best animated shorts (10 minutes and under) from around the globe. Shorts selected for the festival have the chance to make it on-air, online and to be showcased at the live event in Los Angeles in October. All shorts selected to screen in the Festival are eligible for all these great prizes! The Grand Prize; the $30,000 Nick Development Award, the Grand Jury Award; $10,000 chosen by our featured 2008 judges, the Producers' Choice Award, the Online Viewer’s Choice Award and the Student Award in partnership with mtvU.2007 proved to be another great year for animation! Nicole Mitchell won both the 2007 Grand Prize and the 2007 Grand Jury prize last year with her charming short, Zoologic. Jiwook Kim won the 2007 Producer’s Choice award with her delightful short St. Laleeloo. Javier Barboza won the 2007 Diversity Award for his touching short, Feb. 18 2005 and Andy Lyon won the Student Award for his funny short Bare.This year proves to be bigger than ever with more ways to enter into the festival than ever before!For our budding young animators under 18 we have our Greater Creator Contest! Send in your idea for a character and show idea and you could win a trip to the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank for you and your family, as well as a Animation Academy to come to your school!New to the festival this year is the “I Got Game” Contest in partnership with AddictingGames. Send in your idea for a game character and you could win the chance to have it made into a free online game!And coming soon an exciting contest in partnership with LEGO.Festival winners are showcased on-air and the prize winners announced during the 'Nicktoons Network Animation Festival Best Of Special' in October. Shorts are also featured online where viewers can vote on their favorite shorts, and will be showcased at our exclusive live event in Los Angeles also in October.Nicktoons Network is the fastest growing kids' network* and offers a 24-hour schedule featuring programming such as the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, Skyland, Kappa Mikey, The Secret Show and Martin Mystery, as well as a roster of hits that have defined kids' and animation lovers' TV, including Avatar: The Last Airbender, Invader Zim, Danny Phantom, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. Nicktoons Network is a part of the MTV Networks expanded suite of channels available for digital distribution. The new channels include MTV Hits, MTV Jams, Nicktoons Network and VH1 Mega Hits, expanding and strengthening MTV Networks' digital offerings to thirteen services.Nicktoons Network currently reaches 50 million homes via cable, digital cable and satellite, and can be seen on Cablevision, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, Cox Communications, DirecTV, DISH Network and Time Warner Cable. Nicktoons, and all related titles and logos are property of Viacom, Inc.*Nicktoons Network was the Fastest Growing Kid's Network in the past year among K6-14, K9-14 and K12-17. Source: Nielsen Media Research, 01/01/07-12/30/07 vs. 12/26/05-12/31/06. (Live) US AA%http://nicktoonsnetwork.nick.com/nnaf/
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