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WorldFest Houston56th 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. 51st WorldFest EarlyBird Entry Deadline ends Nov 15
The 51st WorldFest ~ EarlyBird Deadline! Entered Online or Postmarked by Wednesday, November 15th! We are always delighted to remember our wonderful "discoveries" over the past 50 years of remarkable WorldFest Winners! WorldFest-Houston is an International celebration of new Premiere Feature and Short Films with their Directors attending!
WorldFest discovered with their very first award ~ Stephen Spielberg (Amblin'), George Lucas (THX1138), Ang Lee (Pushing Hands), Ridley Scott (The 1984 Apple TVC), the Coen Brothers (Blood Simple), Oliver Stone (Salvador), David Lynch (The Grandmother), Randal Kleiser (Peege), John Lee Hancock (Vaya Con Dios), and literally hundreds more! You could be the next Spielberg or Ang Lee! Enter today! The Discount EarlyBird Entry Deadline - Wednesday, November 15th, 2017! Just enter Online via our website or via filmFreeway.com! Or Postmarked by the 15th~ But No Worries - The Main Entry Deadline is December 15th, 2017 and the Final BrickWall Deadline is January 15th, 2018. For entry into the only International film festival with 10 major competition Categories ~ the 51st WorldFest-Houston, simply visit https://worldfest.org It is quick and easy to enter the 51st WorldFest, via our website, or FilmFreeway.com - We are now accepting Online Vimeo Screeners in addition to Jump Drives and DVD/BR Entries. We will send you a confirmation when we receive your entry and a personal email with the jury results! We judge your entries on big LG Digital Screens, not little Laptops! We screen Remi Award Winning Short, Feature, Student, Experimental and Music Video entries on big Theater screens! Not in little hotel meeting rooms! Go for your chance at the Remi Award - at the 51st Annual WorldFest-Houston! The festival will be Celebrated April 20-29, 2018, Ten Great Days in April, with more than 1,000 International Filmmakers attending! The 13th Annual Panorama Italia, and a major 4th Annual Panorama China of new films and filmmakers from China, 9 Master Classes in Film Production, a nightly Festival Club for Networking, a VIP Tour of NASA, a Consular Sailing Regatta at the classic Houston Yacht Club on beautiful Galveston Bay with Longhorn Steers and Texas BBQ, and the Remi Awards Gala at the WorldFest HQ Hotel!
14.11.2017 | WorldFest Houston's blog Cat. : Call for entry
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(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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