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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.  Worldfest has plenty of different categories to select to fit your ambitions and skillsWorldFest is really TEN festivals in one because we believe in the synergy of the many facets of filmmaking. WorldFest offers competition in Short Subjects, Theatrical Features, Film & Video Productions, TV Commercials, Television & Cable & Web Productions, Scripts, New Media, Music Videos and Experimental Productions. The Categories COMPETITION CATEGORIESCompetition Categories for the 51st Annual WorldFest-Houston. Entries Officially Open as of Tuesday, August 15th, 2017! The FINAL Online Entry Deadline is JAN 15, 2018 Online, BUT if you can get your Entries in our office by JAN 31, 2018 ~ all is well! WorldFest will now accept Online Screeners via FilmFreeway.com – or via the Online or Printed Entry Form. We will require a Jump Drive, BluRay or DCP if your entry is selected for screening. The juries will be hard at work through to the end of February 2018 and we will inform winners by Saturday, March 31st, 2018! Independent Shorts FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION Independent Shorts301. Animated (Classic Cel Animation) 302B. Drone Productions (Total or Partial Drone Photography in the entry) CRAFT CATEGORIES: INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS350. Animated (Classic Cel Animation) INDEPENDENT THEATRICAL FEATURES001. Action / Adventure CRAFT CATEGORIES: *** For Titles, Trailers, Lead-ins & Logos – See TV Commercials / PSAs Category #460. INDEPENDENT STUDY FILMS & VIDEOSAll may be entered in any two additional categories at no extra fee. A copy of your student ID is fine, or a letter from your school. 601. Graduate Level Student Productions TELEVISION AND CABLE PRODUCTION101. Animated 154B. Drone Productions (Total or Partial Drone Photography in the entry) CRAFT CATEGORIES: TV COMMERCIALS / PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS401. Amusement 491A. Drone Productions (Total or Partial Drone Photography in the entry) CRAFT CATEGORIES: 508. Use of Drones FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION201. Advertising / Promotional 265B. Drone Productions (Total or Partial Drone Photography in the entry) CRAFT CATEGORIES: SCREENPLAYSScreenplays must be bound in some way—2 or 3 brad or spiral bound. Should run from 70 to 120-150 pages for a standard 2 hour feature film. Not accepted loose-leaf in a box, or with a clip! Unproduced screenplays only. You may put your name and other info on the Title Page. We do not accept on-line screenplays, our judges do not use Kindle, they like to hold your script in their hand and read it … very old school, we know! We do require a brief Synopsis (Appx 100 words or so) for the judges to review prior to reading your Screenplay. 701. Action / Adventure MUSIC VIDEOS801. Country & Western (C&W) CRAFT CATEGORIES: NEW MEDIA (INCLUDING WEBSITES & 3D PRODUCTIONS)901. Hi-Def / New Technology SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY51st WORLDFEST-HOUSTON APRIL 20TH-29th, 2018If you enter only one film festival this year, make it WorldFest, the tried and true 51 year-old testament to "Film Discoveries"! Entering is Quick and Easy! We Welcome Your Entry! 24.11.2017 | WorldFest Houston's blog Cat. : FESTIVALS
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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 |
