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The Festival runs April 22-25, 2021 - Four Great Days in April! @worldfest #Worldfest #FilmFestival #Festival #Houston #Texas
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You are cordially invited to be part of the upcoming 54th 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 53rd 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.
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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.
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The EarlyBird Deadline is November 15th
51st WORLDFEST-HOUSTON “CALL FOR ENTRIES!”
“FORGET SUNDANCE! …WorldFest is one of the best conceived festival productions on the planet!” ~ Craig Outhier, film critic, Phoenix press; Tempe Times.
The 51st Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues its totally d...
WorldFest 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 CATEGORIES
Competition Categories for the 51st Annual WorldFest-Houston. Entries Officially Open as of Tuesday, August 15th, 2017...
All of us at Team WorldFest wish you...
A truly Bountiful Thanksgiving! We wish you wonderful moments with your family, friends and co-workers in this delightful holiday season of giving and warmth!
All of us at Team WorldFest - Hunter, Kathleen, Kelly, Adrienn, Chandni, Elease, Ray, Dan, Tom, George, Paul, Wayne and Katy Lea hope that your Thanksgiving 2017 is the very best. We will be roasting our traditional Capon with Virginia Honey-Nut Dressing, Artichokes, Sweet Potato Souff...
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 (...
2017 GRAND REMI WINNERS
WorldFest-Houston is the only film festival in the world with ten major competition categories, not just Shorts and Features like most festivals. In addition, we have more than 200 sub-categories, so a small Indie documentary does not have to compete with a National Geographic Special. Each year, we receive more than 4,500 category entries, and only about 15% of total entries actually win a Remi Award. WorldFest is the only film festival in the world that a...
Something exceptionnal in the world of festivals happened in Houston Texas where Hunter Todd wrapped his 50th edition of the festival. He is by far the longest running festival Director in the World. (Worth a guiness book entry as well as a few toats of champagne, which we all had with him)
50 years celebrating the best in indie filmmaking descovering screen legends and icon directors such as Lucas Spielberg, Ang Lee and many others. He received vibrant homages and applause and family emotion...
The Unwilling producer Gianluca Bertone on Stage picking up his prize
WorldFest-Houston, the third longest-running International Film Festival in North America, celebrated the conclusion of its 10-day run of film, fun and fanfare in its 50th annual independent film showcase with a 9% increase in box-office! With Rob Reiner on hand to kick off the festival with his brilliant new film, LBJ, WorldFest got off to an awesome star...
Dmitri de Clerck winner with You go to my Head enjoying his Houston time at the Yacht Club!
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The Unwilling by Jonathan Heap, with a happy Gianluca Bertone and Myriad Global Media CL Cobb wirth 20 Awards to bring home.
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800 guests at the Gala ceremony hosted by festival founder Hunter Todd celebrating the 50th edition of the Festival, the oldest independent festival in North America
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Hunter Todd Festival Founder quoted this as the most important presentation of Chinese films in the world of festivals, some 33 features with many world premieres.... The Panorama China Official Closing Night Film was SPECIAL ENCOUNTER, directed by Hwang Mi-Na - a Dalian Wanda Group Production.
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Offering another tantalizing cornucopia of true Indie films, WorldFest’s 50th edition opened with a full house to applaud Rob Reiner, in attendance to receive his much deserved Career Achievement Award and present the WorldFest premiere of his most recent film, the impeccably crafted LBJ.
WorldFest continues until Sunday, April 30th with 17 World Premieres from 87 independent features and an amazing contingent of 109 award-winning shorts. Special showcase of The Twelfth An...
MAKING A MOVIE WITH THE WRITE STUFF! Nick Nicholson Thursday, April 27th at 10:00 AM
National film critic Nick Nicholson will reveal the seemingly ever-elusive list of things to do and not to do in your film projects on topics of writing, directing, producing, distribution and all in between. Member, Broadcast Film Critics Assn., Broadcast TV Journalist Assn., SAG-AFTRA, HCC-TV & CNN Radio & Co-founder of Houston Film Critics Society.
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WorldFest was founded over 50 years ago as 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 Indepen...
You are cordially invited to be part of the upcoming 50th Annual WorldFest-Houston!
Last week to submit (JANUARY 15TH LATE ENTRY DEADLINE)
The oldest Indie 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, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone, David Lynch and literally hundreds more! We are happy to accept Online FilmFreeway Screeners! We have Big LG 110&...
More than 4,500 Intl Entries from 74 Nations!
WorldFest-Houston Intl. Festival Wraps 49th Season
“Small Budgets ~ Giant Leaps!”
WorldFest-Houston, the third longest-running International Film Festival in North America, and the Oldest Independent Film Festival in the world, celebrated the conclusion of its 10-day run of film, fun and fanfare in its 49th annual independent film showcase with a 9% increase in box-office. WorldFest opened this year’s ed...
Panorama China Chairman Ray Jiang
Ambassador Award to Wang Zhifei
Lifetime achievment to Lisa Lu
Bruno Chatelin likes the twins!
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Hunter Todd and Kathleen Haney
Check below the long list of winners (each category has 3 awards) Hunter Todd did a terrific job at announcing them all with a cavalry pace. I missed my spot when going onstage to receive the Gold Remy Award for best Romance for Get Happy, beeing not fast enough, the award was gone. (Do you think you look stupid if you walk onstage ...and quickly away without the coveted award :-) because it had already disapeared?) Thank god a few glasses of champagne dilut...
A full house listened eagerly to a gifted and comedic talent Casey Kelley, 25 year veteran of the WCA screenwriter with sales to NBC, ABC, CBS, Disney,LifetimePBS, Paramount Columbia and Universal. An AFI Directing for Women grant recipient and Remi Award for The Other Woman, Kelly teaches scriptwriting at numerous venues and at university.
Sharing her expertise on scriptwriting and character development with excitement and generousity Kelly shared anecdotes stemming from her standout car...
THE ANNUAL WORLDFEST SCHEDULE
4.8.2016 @ 8:00 PM
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Type
Theater
LAST MAN CLUB
Feature
B/17
Buy Now
Trailer
Opening Night Premiere and Champagne Reception
Feature
A/23
Buy Now
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MASTER CLASSES SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Come and see what the heart of the film industry is all about with this set of innovative and exciting topics such as Casting for Indie Films, SAG/AFTRA, noted Film Critic Nick Nicholson’s take the world of film, Drones for Indie Filmmaking, All about DCP, NASA insiders tips for amazing footage for filmmakers, to our traditional Indie Directors’ Forum, Scriptwriters Hollywood Protocol plus much more.
WHEN: April 14th, 15th, 16th at 10AM...
Offering another tantalizing cornucopia of true Indie films, WorldFest 49 continues 4 more days until Sunday, April 17th with a number of World Premieres from 78 Indie features and a large contingent of award winning shorts (106). An amazing Second Annual Panorama China has blossomed into an offering of 20+ Indie films from China with most directors and producers in attendance. Another special showcase is The Eleventh Annual Italian Panorama featuring 2 World Premieres and their ...
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About WorldFest Houston
 Haney Kathleen
(WorldFest-Houston Intl Film & Video Festival) Kathleen Haney is the Artistic & Program Director of the 52th 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.
She has served on several international juries and also directs the WorldFest Screenplay Competition.
Hunter Todd is the Chairman & Founding Director of WorldFest-Houston. A former filmmaker, he produced, directed and shot more than 300 films of all types - from features to TV Commercials, and was awarded 117 Intl Awards. He is a retired USCG/Merchant Marine Captain and still sails as much as possible, including the annual HYC Regatta at WorldFest. Married with a 21 going-on-29 daughter who is attending Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. He has served on the Intl juries of more than 25 festivals, most recently was President of the Intl Jury of the Concorto Intl Film Festival in Italy and The Golden Bell TV Festival in Seoul, Korea...
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