The Channel Frederator Awards Party

Last night at Cinespace in Hollywood, Fred Seibert held the first annual Channel Frederator Awards party. Seibert, the founder of Frederator and former President of Hanna-Barbera studios, attracted a mammoth crowd who enjoyed a continual cartoon screening, video interviews throughout the night and an A-list assembly from the kids animation world.

But the real stars of the night were the winners of the Channel Frederator Awards. Several of the award winning films were produced in Flash, including Jessica Borutski’s musical short I Like Pandas, which won Best Flash Film, and War Photographer by Joel Trussell which took home two awards - Best Music Video and The Producers’ Award. Jossie Malis’ Bendito Machine won for Best Design, Bernard Derriman’s immensely-viral Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me took home Funniest Film, and Ed Skudder’s Flash-animated short The New Guy walked away with the Joe Robot Award, for best use of a robot.

I also saw heaps of great people, including Melissa Wolfe, who not only works for Frederator but also created one of this year’s Random Cartoons (Sparkles and Gloom), Bill Bennett (who co-created Chalkzone), Kris Boban from Liquid Generation, the guys from Six Point Harness Studio and Animax Entertainment and Michael Uman and Luis Blanco from Interspectacular, the NYC shop who was written up here last December for the Discovery Channel work.

Great party, Frederator. I don’t think you have a choice on this one - you’re doing that again next year!

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