The Holland Animation Film Festival is a unique five-day international meeting place for all professionals, animation lovers, producers, students, upcoming talents and all interested audiences. Featuring retrospectives, thematic programs, master classes, talk shows, exhibitions, installations, SFX/VFX, and much more, the 16th edition of the festival will be held March 20-24, 2013.

Festival organizers have issued a call for submissions to the following competitions:

Competition features -- International competition for feature-length animation films.

Competition shorts -- International competition, with the categories narrative and non-narrative.

Competition European student films -- Open for all European films produced at art and film academies, or comparable studies.

Competition Dutch animation -- Open only for Dutch productions: shorts, student films, TV films and commissioned films (shorts and student films can also enter those competitions through the same entry form)

Entry forms for all competitions are available at www.haff.nl. To apply a film for HAFF 2013 you need to create your own MyHAFF account. The deadline for entries is January 1, 2013.

Can’t wait for the festival? Visit YouTube.com/HAFFTube, the official festival channel within YouTube for the international online competition for web films.

Source: Holland Animation Film Festival