Cartoon Network Greenlights Summer Camp Island

ATLANTA/BURBANK: Cartoon Network has given the go-ahead to Summer Camp Island, an animated series and Sundance Film Festival selection based on the original short created by Julia Pott (Adventure Time).

Screened as part of the animated short films category at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, the project will now be extended into a series. Summer Camp Island explores the mysteries that Oscar and his best friend Hedgehog encounter at a magical summer camp. The friends are attending summer camp for the first time and must navigate a world in which the counselors are witches, horses become unicorns and monsters actually live under the bed. Summer Camp Island is slated to debut next year.

The series is produced by Cartoon Network Studios. Summer Camp Island has also screened and won at Ottawa International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and American Film Institute. Pott joined Cartoon Network as a writer on the hit series Adventure Time in 2015.

“Summer Camp Island is a great example of the kind of creativity generated by our acclaimed studio shorts program,” said Rob Sorcher, Cartoon Network’s chief content officer. “We are all wanting to spend summers inside this timeless and magical world captured by Julia’s signature warmth and inventiveness.”