The teams of Zero Gravity and Finding Manny attended the screenings and received their REMI AWARDS (respectively Gold and Platinum)
Proud of our BEST FOR FESTS
The team of finding Manny honored in Houston with The WorldFest - Houston Platinum Remi Award Hunter Todd (Festival founder) with Cindy Drukier and Jan Jekielek (producers)
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The Houston International Film Festival is the third oldest film festival in North America, started in 1961, right after New York and San Francisco.
It is the oldest Independent film festival in the world and we are fiercely independent!
We value a “Good Story, Well Told” and want to share what we find with Houston.
Our mission is to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film, to validate brilliant abilities, to promote cultural tourism for Houston, to educ...
Young Pleun Nijhuis's convincing and mature performance in "Hidden in the Spotlight" showed much potential and earned her the Remi award for BEST RISING STAR FEMALE at WorldFest 54!
Young Erik Gyarmati's playful performance in "Cream (HAB)" was well beyond his years and earned him the Remi award for BEST RISING STAR MALE at WorldFest 54!
The passionated performance of the late Mary Pat Gleason in "Saving Paradise" captivated us and earned her the wel...
Closing day of our WorldFest Mini-Fest! This whirlwind of cinematic excellence continues through the 9'o clock hour. We have our fearless filmmakers out on Galveston Bay sailing away in our Annual Consular Corps Regatta in partnership with the Houston Yacht Club. WorldFest is the only film festival in the world with its own sailboat race!
If you're not on the water, come join us for our amazing round of feature films to close out this unique year.
We'l...
WorldFest-Houston
FINAL SHORTS
Our final slate of shorts includes another wonderful round of dramas, travel shorts to help us dream of future post-covid vacations to come, sci-fi shorts to dream of different realities and horror shorts so we can master our fear!
Enjoy these cinematic samplings and we'll see you at the movies!
-TEAM WORLDFEST
SHORTS! SHORTS! SHORTS!
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Highlights for Day Three!
Day three of WorldFest-Houston with friends flying in from all over! We have a wonderful selection of incredible indie films from such far away lands as Bulgaria (SHIBIL), Canada (BONE CAGE), Columbia/Mexico/USA (OKLAHOMA MON AMOUR), Germany (IT's GONNA BE FINE), Japan (PEGASUS), Macao (PATIO OF ILLUSION) and Mexico (LUCINDA URRUSTI. PAINTER). Join us for a marvelous slate of award-winning films tonight and all day tomor...
The team of finding Manny honored with Platinum Remi Award Hunter Todd (Festival founder) with Cindy Drukier and Jan Jekielek (producers)
SHORTS! SHORTS! SHORTS!
Today we have a dazzling array of short subject films debuting on the silver screen with attending directors for each block. At WorldFest, we love our short film directors because so many amazing directors get their start with a brilliant short film. Come support these amazing filmmakers as they share their dreams...
Dear Film Fans!
Opening night was a delightful blur of ballgowns, flashing lights and dazzling debuts from Covid-cocoons. NARCO SUB (USA) fans were glowing with Director Shawn Welling, Producer Derek Potts and Actor Tom Vera in attendance. NARCO SUB was presented a Special Jury Remi Award for Action Adventure.
BEAUTIFUL LURE (Japan) opened our special focus on emerging Asian Cinema Panorama Asia directed by Hiroshi Akabane. Not only ...
WORLDFEST- HOUSTON 2021 April 22, 2021
Welcome to WorldFest!
As we emerge from the shadows of last year, we celebrate the 54th year of our film festival and reflect on the many lessons at hand realizing that our mission of spotlighting emerging cinematic talent is as important as ever.
In this year of introspection, isolation and social unrest, these films and the stories they tell connect us globally and offer understanding. From our humble beginnings in Atlanta in 1961 as an Internation...
THE TEAM IS READY AND SHARED WITH US THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM THE OPENING NIGHT IN HOUSTON
Dear friends: we're ready to strut down the red carpet with our wonderful opening night films! You'll see everything from blue jeans to ball gowns at this fiercely independent opening night event. Catch Beautiful Lure (Japan) or Narco Sub (USA) and join us for a champagne toast at the Westin Memorial City immediately following the 7pm screenings at Cinemark Memor...
BEST ACTOR NOMINATIONS.
With the WorldFest-Houston juries just finalizing their Best of Actor/Actress nominations, the festival is proud to announce the nominees for the 2021 Remi Awards honoring the best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, and best supporting actress plus the Rising Star nominees. This year we have also added Best Actor and Best Actress Category for Panorama Asia. The Remi Awards will be presented to the attending winners just...
Wonderful WorldFest Film Premiere Schedule!
Opening Night is just two weeks away for WorldFest54 (April 22 - 25, 2021) at Cinemark Memorial City!
We’ll be premiering Houston’s hometown hero Shawn Welling’s exciting thriller NARCO SUB as our official festival opening. Japan's BEAUTIFUL LURE will be kicking off our Panorama Asia section. See below for film details and trailers.
Join us after the movies at the HQ Westin Memorial City with your ticket for a glass o...
The fantastic team behind each Worldfest Houston festival for quite some time! Hunter Todd founded the festival in 1961 and has run each of the 53 editions so far, that makes him the only festival organizer in the world with such a vast experience in running festivals.
Behind each great man you will always find a great woman: here both Kathleen and Katy Lea have proven essential to the success of the festival.
Check our ambiance video : this is what the festival looks like (FUN) when t...
We wanted to give you a progress report on WorldFest 54! We are running slightly behind due to the Covid19 pandemic!
We hope to complete all jury sessions in the next ten days!
Because of Covid19 restrictions, we have had to cut back the 54th WorldFest-Houston to just 3 1/2 days, but we are premiering 39 new Feature films and around 90 Intl shorts. Remarkably, actual entry totals were UP this year, despite Covid19! This did mean a greater burden on our Intl Juries, however....
Howdy from Houston!
Our world has been affected like nothing else in our life's history! Many of our staff, including our Director - were hit by the Covid19!! All of us are fine now and adapting to "Pandemic Life"... we hope you and yours are all safe and well...
And our very warmest wishes to you and yours for a Wonderful Christmas, the Happiest of Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, and a Wonderful, Peaceful & Prosperous New Year from all of us ...
The 54th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival officially opened for entries August 15th!
November 15, 2020 Earlybird Entry Deadline I December 15, 2020 Main Festival Entry Deadline I January 16, 2021 Late Entry Deadline I
January 31, 2021 I Final Brick Wall Deadline I April 16, 2021 Notification Date
WorldFest Houston's blog I Website: http://www.worldfest.org I&nbs...
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 15th Annual Panorama Italia at this year’s WorldFest 53rd edition, None Like Us (Nessuno Come Noi) directed by Volfango de Biasi (who had been expected to attend) was awarded...
WorldFest is honored to grant a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Remi Award to Brian Dennehy for his long and talented career in motion pictures. In one of his final roles as Del, an aging Korean War Vet in Driveways (USA) directed by Andrew Ahn, he warmly depicts his unexpected friendship (at times gruff but still caring) with a lonely 8 year old boy, Cody, (Lucas Jaye, our own Rising Star Actor 2020), who moves in next door with his single Mom (Hong Chau). D...
As we begin to move beyond the shadows of the dreadful virus, and although the 53rd WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival has been postponed ... we have carried on with the essential business of the film festival and overseen the adjudication of the Remi Awards from a wonderful slate of amazing films, scripts and excellent performances...!
We "Salute and Congratulate" all of the contenders and we are
now delighted to Announce the Final Results re...
Don't worry, friends... as long as humans have been around there has been a need for story telling. The show will go on and we will be back with more "good stories, well told."
Now, y'all stay safe, ya hear!
Dear film creators and lovers,
Friends, we really didn't want it to come to this. We kept quietly pressing on, putting the finishing touches on our program, watching amazing films and assembling the best 53rd WorldFest-Houston Inter...
Dear Friends,
As we put the finishing touches on our exciting 53rd Houston International Festival program, we want to reach out to inform you of the steps we are taking in light of the evolving status of COVID-19. HIFF staff continue to monitor on a daily basis the developments and latest guidelines provided by local, national, and international authorities and at this time we are confident and comfortable in moving forward with the Festival, which will run April 17–26.
W...
ANNOUNCING PANORAMA MEXICO
Photo Credit: Duyên Nguyen (Pete Garcia of the US-Mexican Chamber of Commerce; Kathleen Haney, Festival Program Director; Hunter Todd, Festival Founder and President; The Honorable Alicia Kerber, Mexican Consul; Fernando Fernandez Ramos of AeroMexico; Nuria Zuñiga Alaniz, Mexican Cultural Attaché; Adrian Flores, Aeromexico)
The 53rd Annual WorldFest-Houston international Film Festival held a launch party for their inaugural ...
This could be you at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston!
The 53rd Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival is now officially open for entries! WorldFest offers competition for Shorts, Documentaries...
Hunter and Kathleen Todd (Worldfest foiunders), friends of the festivals like David Winning, award winning filmmaker, publicist Susan Gold and Bruno Chatelin were invited to witness and celebrate the 'FNS PREVIEW 2019' forum held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza on the 9th of December.
The event, which was held together with the Hallyu Forum of global personnel prior to the business presentation, was co-hosted by FNS developer RnDeep and Fortis, Foxnet, Medi Partner Biotechnology, etc...
Howdy from Houston!
And our very best wishes for a Wonderful Christmas, the Happiest of Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, and a Wonderful, Peaceful & Prosperous New Year from all of us at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival! The Oldest Indie Film Fest in the World!
You are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming 53rd WorldFest-Houston! The Main Online Deadline is only a few days away! Sunday, December 15th! You m...
Haney Kathleen 
