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 directors attending. An enticing array of USA Indie dramas & quirky comedies, an exciting Croatian documentary, a Tanzania wedding planner film, an Armenian buddy film plus a wide array of USA Indie flicks from comedies to crime thrillers provide festival audiences a wide variety of cinematic treats. All screenings will be at The AMC Studio 30 on Dunvale, our long term festival cinema partner. (2949 Dunvale, Houston, TX 77046).  Check website for trailers, times and ticketing… www.worldfest.org/calendar

HOPE, the Official Closing Night film is an inspirational faith-based story produced by Irving Films, the father & daughter film team, Charles Irving and Lakisha Lemons, based in Houston, TX who are now working on a fourth feature.

With the WorldFest- Houston juries just finalizing their Best Actor/Actress nominations, the festival is proud to announce the Nominees for the 2016 Remi Awards, honoring the best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, and best supporting actress and this year continuing the exciting new category; Rising Stars. The WorldFest Remi Awards will be presented to the attending winners at our Awards Ceremony, April 16, 2016 at The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel (#6 East Greenway Plaza).

 
BEST ACTRESS nominees are: Rebecca Calder (Love/Me/Do) UK; Montse Germán (Sonata for Cello) Spain; Kate French (Last Man Club) USA; Abigail Spencer (a beautiful now) USA; Jasmin Schwiers, (Morpheus) Germany.

BEST ACTOR nominees are: Nick Matteo (Clandestine) USA; Quantae Love (Popolo) USA; Pyotr Fyhodorov, (The Dawns Here are Quiet) Ukraine; Estes Tarver (Changeover) USA; Mu-Yeol KIM, (Northern Limit Line) S. Korea.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anna Schudt, The Good Goring, Germany; Aiko Melendez, Deliver Us, Philippines; Anastasiya Mikulchina, The Dawns Here are Quiet, Ukraine, Mariana Ximenes, (A Matter of Courage) Brazil; Brittany Allen, (Look Again) Canada.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, JM de Guzman, (Tandem) Philippines; David La Rosa, (Clandestine) USA; Antonio Ibáñez (Paranoid Girls) Spain; Lee Hyun-Woo, (Norhern Limit Line) S. Korea; Nico Antonio (Tandem) Philippines.

In the WorldFest Rising Stars category, WorldFest jury members have made their considered deliberations for final nominees in Best Female Stars: Stefania LaVie Owen (Coming through the Rye) USA; Cristiana Capotondi (Elementary Loves) Italy; Madalyn Horcher (Riding 79) Puerto Rico. For Best Male Stars the nominees are: Julian Feder (Po) USA; Ronwaldo Martin (My Life with a King) Philippines; Blaze Tucker  (Last Man Club) USA.

WorldFest will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a special review of 106 new short and student films from the festival that gave first top honors to Spielberg, Lucas, The Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Randal Kleiser, Spike Lee, Gavin Hood, John Lee Hancock, Michael Cimino, Steven Poster, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan and David Lynch, among many others! Few other festivals have such a “discovery”  track record!

WorldFest began in August 1961, as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society,   screening Independent, Foreign & Art films. In April 1968 seven years later, it became an officially competitive International Film Festival, and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is one of the original three film festivals in North America, with San Francisco and New York as the first two. Following WorldFest was Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, and Seattle. Then Telluride, Sundance, Toronto, SXSW and more recently, Tribeca.  

The 49th Annual WorldFest offers International Competition in Features, Shorts, TV production, TV commercials, unproduced Screenplays & Teleplays, Experimental, Student, Documentary, Business & Industry, New Media, and Music Videos. WorldFest is the largest film & video competition in the world, in sheer number of actual category entries, with more than 4,300 category entries received in 2016. There are over 200 sub-categories for competition, allowing each film to compete in its own genre.
WorldFest-Houston is sponsored by Arcodoro, Boxer Properties, The Houston Yacht Club, The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Lopez Negrete Communications, HBU, and the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA).  
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