The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival

Okay. So, yesterday, I posted a fascinating entry on the oh-so-many countries from where we received cartoon submissions for last year’s Nicktoons Network Film Festival (or, as it was then called, Nextoons: The Nicktoons Animation Festival). As a companion entry, offered to you now is a short rundown of the seventeen US states from whose filmmakers we did not hear in 2005: Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. You know, this list suddenly reminds me of - besides our desire to garner film submissions from every corner of the world - the image of my lovely second wife, Ms Montana Nebraska. If you’re out there, honey, all is forgiven. Come on home.

– Eric

You want to know one of my favorite things about The Nicktoons Network Film Festival? I didn’t think so. But here it is anyway: the knowledge that filmmakers from literally all around the globe are eagerly participating in this yearly event of ours. In 2005 alone, we received entries from 37 different countries, including: Latvia, Uzbekistan, Israel, China, Iran, and Madagascar. Scotland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Lithuania, Poland, and Argentina. Romania, Croatia, France, …well, you get the idea. A lot of places. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d get a big map, slap it on the wall, and riddle it with pushpins to represent our global reach. Then I could be just like President Muffley with his “big board”.

Okay, The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival Call for Entries began March 15th - twenty-three days ago - and although we’ve gotten quite a few submissions already, we don’t seem to see yours among them. What’s the deal?

– Eric

–Hadley