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56th WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival: April 25-30, 2023 - @worldfest #Worldfest #FilmFestival #Festival #Houston #Texas GET A FEELING OF THE AMBIANCE WATCH OUR PHOTO GALLERY & VIDEO CHANNEL You are cordially invited to be part of the upcoming 56th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival! The oldest Independent Film Festival in the whole wide world! WorldFest gave first awards to giants of the film industry, including Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, Ridely Scott, John Lee Hancock, Guillermo del Toro, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone, David Lynch and literally hundreds more! We are happy to accept Online FilmFreeway Screeners! We have Big LG 110" Digital Screens for our juries! Not little laptops. Since we show our Remi Winners on big Cinemark Theatre screens, it seems right that we look at your production on a big flat screen! We do also accept DVD, BLURAY or USB FLASH/PEN/JUMP DRIVE for juding and for Theater Screening. Region Zero, please! (If you win a Remi, you may be screened on big Cinemark Theatre 60-foot screens to 600+ theater audience!! So we need a BluRay or Jump Drive for the DCP screening! Large juries view your entry on a big digital screen, not a little laptop! {Screenplay entries must be bound}! We will personally confirm your entry's arrival. We will personally let you know the jury results, and if you win a Remi Award, we will invite you to attend the 56th WorldFest, and you will receive a complimentary $1,000 VIP Platinum Festival Pass! We do prefer Premieres! We discovered Spielberg, Lucas, Ang Lee, The Coen Brothers, Coppola and David Lynch, with their Premieres - those many new festivals did not! Therefore WorldFest requires a Premiere of some level, World, USA, South West! If your entry if it has been all over, we reserve those screening slots for true Premieres, but you could still win a Remi Award.
WorldFest was founded over 56 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the World. It evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968. It was founded by award-winning producer/director Hunter Todd to present a quality film festival for the Independent filmmakers. Hunter Todd has been honored with more than 115 international awards for creative excellence in film production, and he has been the producer, director, writer and/or cameraman on more than 300 motion picture and video productions. He has served as the member of the International Jury on more than 27 world-wide film festivals, from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Korea, Ireland and Bulgaria. The mission/vision statement of WorldFest is ~ To recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film & video, to validate brilliant abilities and to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to develop film production in the region and to add to the rich cultural fabric of the city of Houston. All members of the WorldFest staff are filmmakers.  The 54th WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival Call for Entries...
The 54th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival officially opened for entries August 15th! November 15, 2020 Earlybird Entry Deadline I December 15, 2020 Main Festival Entry Deadline I January 16, 2021 Late Entry Deadline I January 31, 2021 I Final Brick Wall Deadline I April 16, 2021 Notification Date WorldFest Houston's blog I Website: http://www.worldfest.org I Submit I Facebook I Twitter I Contact Hunter ToddWorldfest has been a reference partner of filmfestivals.com for years with friendship trust and great work between the two organizations. (full team below in action in Houston)
WorldFest was founded over 54 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the World. It evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968. It was founded by award-winning producer/director Hunter Todd to present a quality film festival for the Independent filmmakers. Hunter Todd has been honored with more than 115 international awards for creative excellence in film production, and he has been the producer, director, writer and/or cameraman on more than 300 motion picture and video productions. He has served as the member of the International Jury on more than 27 world-wide film festivals, from Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Korea, Ireland and Bulgaria. The mission/vision statement of WorldFest is ~ To recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film & video, to validate brilliant abilities and to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to develop film production in the region and to add to the rich cultural fabric of the city of Houston. All members of the WorldFest staff are filmmakers.
WorldFest offers competition for Shorts, Documentaries, Feature Films, Music Videos, Experimental & Student Films on the Silver Screens of the wonderful Memorial City Cinemark Theatres, with over 1,000 international filmmakers attending the 10-day International Film Festival from 75 Nations! The year 2020 will go down in history as the strangest year in all our memory! After 53 years, we had to postpone the festival, and we are still trying to find screening dates in late 2020. But with theatres not re-opening, we do not know. Happily, our 10 International Juries managed to finish all their work, and we have been able to send out Remi Awards to winners all over the world! Our awards makers have been closed, so it has been a very slow process getting all the elements! Our Remi Winners have been wonderful in helping with the postage for their awards, as we lost more than $250,000 in VIP Sponsorships! No Festival, No Check! This is America’s Discovery Film Festival – We’re Fiercely Independent! Competition in 10 major categories with 200 sub-categories to ensure you are judged with your peers for the chance to win a coveted Remi Award! Ten great days in April, at the beautiful Memorial City Cinemark Theatres. Here’s a taste of what WorldFest-Houston has waiting for you: see your film on a big screen; network with filmmakers from 75 countries; enjoy the Festival Club every night at our headquarters hotel, the Memorial City Westin/Marriott, parties at the VIP Hotel Zaza, walk the Red Carpet; attend more than 200 new film Premieres; learn at 9 Master Classes on filmmaking, from Drone Photography to using Free NASA stock footage; enjoy the VIP Police Escort Tour of NASA & Rocket Park; treat yourself to some delicious Texas BBQ & Beer as you meet the gregarious Skippers at The Houston Yacht Club/Consular Regatta before taking in the Closing Night Film to wrap up the 2021 Festival! See the largest survey in North America of New Asian Independent & major studio films with emerging Asian Filmmakers attending our remarkable 7th Annual Panorama Asia, the largest Major Spotlight on Asian Cinema in the film festival world! Enjoy great new films from Italy in our 16th Annual Panorama Italia, with the Italian Directors in person to intro the film and meet the audience! All at the 54th WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival, April 16-25, 2021.
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival offers international competition in Ten Major Competition Categories! Features, Shorts, Docs/Business Films, Student, Experimental, Screenplays, New Media, TV Production, TV Commercials, & Music Videos! More than 200 sub-categories for fair competition. Only at WorldFest-Houston are you selected as a Remi Award Winner on the basis of your numerical score from the juries, which greatly increases your chance to win a Remi, unlike other festivals that only give out one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze! Between 10%-15% of entries win the coveted Remi Awards!
You may enter Online via our entry platform - www.worldfest.org, or via www.FilmFreeway.com - we now accept entries via Vimeo & YouTube, in addition to DVD/BR Entries, & USB/Jump Drives. Screenplay entries must be bound. We will confirm when we receive your entry and we provide personal Jury Results, and festival details when you are selected for screening at the 54th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival!
All Remi Winners receive a complimentary $1,000 VIP Platinum All Festival Pass, deep discounts at the HQ Westin Hotel, plus very special discounts for your guests. To enter, simply visit us at - https://worldfest.org
Quick & Easy. Be part of the only film festival that discovered these great filmmakers: John Badham (The Gun), John Boorman, (Deliverance), Martin Brest, (Hot Tomorrows), The Coen Brothers (Blood Simple), Michael Cimino (Yesterdays TVC for Kodak), Francis Ford Coppola (Producer THX1138), Brian DePalma (Obsession), Jonathan Demme, (Stop Making Sense), Lesli Linka Glatter (Tales of Meeting and Parting), John Frankenheimer, (Impossible Object), John Lee Hancock (Screenplay, Short & Feature, Vaya Con Dios), Hal Hartley, (Trust), Agnieszka Holland, (Europa, Europa), Gavin Hood (A Reasonable Man, The Storekeeper), Randal Kleiser (Peege, Flight of the Navigator, Grease), Ang Lee (Pushing Hands), Richard Linklater, (Slacker), George Lucas (Director-THX1138), David Lynch (The Grandmother), Deepa Mehta, (Water), Gina Prince-Bythewood, (Love & Basketball), Robert Rodriguez (Bedhead), John Sayles, (Return of The Seacaucus 7), Ridley Scott (1984 Apple TVC), Steven Spielberg (Amblin'), Oliver Stone (Salvador), Robert Townsend, (Hollywood Shuffle), Will Vinton, (Closed Mondays), Hugh Wilson, (Mickey), David Winning (Won over 35 Remi Awards since 1985 & the Grand Remi in our 51st!), and more than a hundred other top directors! Join these amazing and wonderful WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival Alumni! We welcome your entry and look forward to seeing you at the 54th WorldFest-Houston International Film/Video Festival. "Quite Possibly the best organized Film Festival in the World!" According to the Arizona Times film reviewer!
(Special Note to other festivals- We would be happy to cooperate in any way, and send you information on our Remi Winners).
The WorldFest Remi Award for "The Songwriter of Botnang" arrived in Germany on the very day of Gerda Herrmann's 89th birthday. Alexander Tuschinski's poignant film about Gerda's childhood during the turbulent time of WWII depicts her love of music and her eventual ability to craft songs which helped her create a life of joy in spite of tragic surroundings.
Happy to show Richard Denney, Executive Creative Director of the Grand Remi Award Winning Agency St. Lukes~London with their Best of Show Remi, and wearing his WorldFest-Houston Tee!
If you would like to check out their Remi Award winning rendition of the ubiquitous "We'll Meet Again" entitled Stay Home Now on Vimeo take a look here...
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+ SUBSCRIBE to the weekly Newsletter DealsUser imagesAbout WorldFest Houston Haney Kathleen (WorldFest-Houston Intl Film & Video Festival) Kathleen Haney is the Artistic & Program Director of the 55th Annual WorldFest-Houston. She has been associated with WorldFest since 1983 and has been the Program Director since 1998. She was born in Mexico City, speaks Spanish, English and French and graduated from the Univ. of Houston in 1979 cum laudi. View my profile Send me a message The Editor |
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