Talk to the Snail

If you’re going to be in the Palm Springs, California, area on Sunday, August 27, your primary responsibility will be to stop by the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films & Film Market (the PSIFoSF&FM, for short). Why? Because our good friends at Nickelodeon have hijacked a solid 102 minutes of screening time to show a “program of shorts from the brilliant creators at Nickelodeon including favorite characters and sneak peaks into new and upcoming projects.” Included in said program are three Random! Cartoons: Diane Kredensor & Dana Galin’s “Call Me Bessie!”; Anne Walker’s “Mind the Kitty”; and Pen Ward’s “Adventure Time”. It’ll be the public debut “Bessie!” and “Kitty”. You’ll also see an extra-good episode of Random! creator Doug TenNapel’s side-project, CatScratch, an episode of something called SpongeBob SquarePants, and a few examples of Nick’s own shorts program. Oh, and there’ll also be an episode of Frederator’s My Life as a Teenage Robot thrown in there for good measure. Wow. This sounds pretty awesome. Too bad Palm Springs in August is only about 72 degrees hotter than I can stand. Anyhoo, see the actual line-up of Nick shorts here.