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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. Cliff Robertson on hand at WorldFest to accept his Remi Career Achievement AwardThe 41st Annual WorldFest-Houston, April 11-28, 2008 will begin announcing both Feature and Short Film & Video selections for the upcoming ten-day International Film Festival by March 1st, 2008. WorldFest will select 55-60 International Indie Feature films and between 88 and 96 short film & video productions. Additional Remi Award winners will be announced by March 15th in all 10 competition categories. These include: Shorts, Features, Documentaries, TV Production, Experimental, Student, Screenplays, Music Videos, TV Commercials and New Media. All selected Shorts and Features will be posted on the WorldFest Web Site. More than 4,500 category entries were received from 37 countries for the 41st WorldFest competition. For the 2008 festival, WorldFest is honoring Italy with 10 new feature films and selected shorts. Italian directors will attend the festival, and it is produced in cooperation with the Office of Italian Cultural Services and the Consul General of Italy-Houston. WorldFest is also presenting KidFilm, a Family & Children's Film Festival, sponsored by The Houston Chronical. WorldFest-Houston is the 3rd oldest International Film Festival in North America, after San Francisco and New York. It started in 1961 as an International Film Society and became a full-blown competitive film festival in 1967. WorldFest gave first honors to Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott, Brian de Palma, The Coen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez, David Lynch and hundred more! For complete WorldFest info for the 41st Annual Festival, visit - http://www.worldfest.org - All screenings are on big theater screens at the flagship AMC Studio 30 Dunvale in Houston. The Official HQ Hotel is The Renaissance Hotel, Greenway Plaza. The WorldFest is sponsored by The State of Texas, The City of Houston, The Houston Film Commission, Boxer Properties, The Houston Chronical, HP, Kodak, Pillar Bluff Vineyards, The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA), NASA, Space Center Houston, The Houston Yacht Club, MediaATeam, The National Endowment for The Arts, Marriott Hotels, & Wagner Media.
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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 |