Jossie Malis’ Flash-animated short Bendito Machine was selected as a finalist at the 2006 Annecy International Film Festival - what many view as the Oscars of animation.

Since this success, an numerous other awards, Malis has endeavored to turn Bendito Machine into a shorts factory. The second of 9 planned shorts recently released and below is the first 25 seconds. For the entire short, head over to Jossie’s site, where he has also offered iPod downloads and wallpapers.

Jossie Malis, the artist behind the award-winning Bendito Machine, has released a new Flash-animated film. Good Morning Isamu employs the similar silhouette style seen in his previous film, and we witness a television become sentient, sprout tentacles and then get sucked into the big screen in the sky. It’s a haunting short, and one that I can imagine garnering Malis further nominations and awards.

For more of Malis’ work, head over to zumbakamera.com

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!

Last month in Spain was the Festival de Cine Fantástico de Bilbao 2006. CHF covered last year’s festival, in which Mr. Coo took 3rd place in the Nontzeflash Animated Film competition.

This year, ‘Bendito Machine’ took the first prize. This short by Jossie Malis is also up for an award at Annecy.

Several other Flash-animated films in the competition are worth a watch, including:

El naufragio del A4 by Javier Encinas

El provocador by Gabriel Ignacio Cortina

PLOK-The final David Berlioz

The NU adventures by Nacho Rodriguez

Fuggy Fuggy by the Brothers McLeod

Just Say I Didn´t Know by Joe Corrao

But don’t take my word for it - go and watch all of the 174 submissions at the competition’s website.