The water's rising pretty fast, ... I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live.

I'm absolutely stunned by the response to the festival's decision to go annual, ... I didn't expect that we'd come close to breaking last year's record of 1,967 submissions, more than any other animation festival in the world.

I always got in trouble in school for writing stories.

Being the first year, every swim is almost a new record.

As long as we had the numbers, we weren't going to lose.

It's an exciting and interesting film that is unique in the way it deals with real life in this district.

Was so creative, and it didn't talk down to children. It treated them with respect, and it helped to bring different styles of animation to a wider audience.

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

I weed out the obvious ones that no one will convince me to show. My first rule is that it has to be a film you would want to see again.