Sarah Felberbaum as Betty Bottone, "None Like Us", (Nessuno Come Noi )       Best Actress WorldFest 2020

Grand Remi Winner “None Like Us” (Nessuno Come Noi) directed by Volfgango de Biasi, Italy

In what would have been The 15^th Annual Panorama Italia at this year’s WorldFest 53^rd edition, None Like Us (Nessuno Come Noi) directed by Volfango de Biasi (who had been expected to attend) was awarded Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress in a triple play ...!  

None Like Us is the delectable love story set in Turin, in the 80’s where eternal optimist high school teacher, Betty Bottone (Sarah Felberbaum) comes to search for true love with the handsome cad, University Professor Umberto Fioravanti (Alessandro Preziosi) father to Romeo, (Leonardo Pazzagli) a new & troublesome student in her class. Betty keeps believing that love will ultimately conquer all.

With a talented ensemble cast and a near record number of WorldFest top actor nominations None Like Us won the Grand (Best of Show) in a close race among the following films:

The other Special Jury Awards (SJA) top contenders in Feature Films at WorldFest were:

Asfixia (Mexico) by Kenya Márquez, Bullet Trip (Japan) by Nozomu Kasagi,

Driveways (USA) by Andrew Ahn, Good Game: The Beginning (Turkey) by Umut Aral,

Tokyo Offerings Flower (Japan) by Masaya Kato, The Perfect Patient ~ Quick (Sweden) by Mikael Håfström, Raising Buchanan (USA) by Bruce Dellis,

Out Stealing Horses (Norway ) by Hans Petter Moland and last but not least,

Song of Love (Inner Mongolia) by Peng Jun.

WorldFest 2020 Grand REMI Awards for other Major Categories:

● BEST FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION ● 

LAVENDER

 Andrew Ball-Shaw, Director, Writer, UK

● BEST TELEVISION / CABLE / WEB PRODUCTION  ● 
BACK TO THE MOON

 Charles - Antoine de Rouvre / Sophie Bocquillon, Writers

Grand Angle Productions, Merignac, France

● BEST NEW MEDIA  ● 
MUM’S THE WORD

Colin Scheyen, Toronto, Canada

● BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO  ● 
PRIVATE VIEW

 Theo Lindquist, Director ~ Los Angeles, CA. USA

● BEST SHORT SUBJECT  ● 
DARLING, DARLING, WENDY

 Katherine Sainte Marie, Vista, CA, USA

● BEST STUDENT FILM ● (Tie)

CLARITY

Roy Arwas, Los Angeles, CA, USA 

THINGS FALLING APART

Daniel Loepfe, Zurich, Switzerland

●    BEST COMMERCIAL  ● 

   NHS - STAY HOME NOW

St. Lukes, London, UK

● BEST MUSIC VIDEO  ● 
BLACKPINK: “KILL THIS LOVE”

 Hyun Seung Seo, Director, YG Entertainment, S. Korea

● BEST SCREENPLAY  ● 
MEMORIES

Norman Ray Fitts, Houston, TX. USA

The Best International Feature, sponsored by the Russian-American Business Publication, went to BULLET TRIP (Japan) directed by Nozomu Kasagi- When young Shinjuku business man, Noboru, and his girlfriend, Noriko take an unlikely trip of 800 km. nonstop to the port town of Mihonoseki, strange things occur to re-set their life together onto a different track.

Dates for WorldFest #54 are April 16-25^th. 2021.

Entries officially open August 1st, 2020.  Main deadline is December 15, 2020. Final Brick-Wall Entry Deadline with late fee penalties is January 15th, 2021.