The official selection for the competitions of the Holland Animation Film Festival 2008 has been announced. The organization was pleasantly surprised by the large number of applications for the various competitions: more than 1,700.

The number of submissions for the Independent Short Film Competition was the highest: 1,270 entries, of which 31 were selected (22 narrative and 9 non-narrative). Among those selected are Paul Driessen's new film The 7 Brothers (made with his son Kaj), The Control Master by Run Wrake (2006 Grand Prix winner with Rabbit), Hot Dog by Bill Plympton, and Life without Gabriella Ferri by Pritt Pärn and Olga Marchenko.

The Applied Animation Competition received 358 entries, of which 120 were selected (53 commercials, 16 educational, 26 title sequences, 25 music videos).

The Competition for student films from the Netherlands and Belgium received 132 applications, of which 40 were selected.

Festival programmers Erik van Drunen and Gerben Schermer have selected the films. The complete overview can be found at www.haff.nl

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