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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. The 51st WorldFest opened with Blaze
USA Showing: Friday, 4/20 at 8:00pm, Saturday, 4/21 at 3pm Drama, Music DIRECTOR: Ethan Hawke EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Louis Black, Gurpreet Chandhoke, Stephen Shea CONTACT: Ryan Hawke, Under the Influence Productions SYNOPSIS: Ten Great Days in April! From the 20th through the 29th, more than 200 New Indie Films from 54 Countries, including 28 Premieres in our new Panorama China! Our new Website, designed by the brilliant creative team at Lopez Negrete Communications is now live! We have posted Film Titles, Trailer Links and Showtimes! You can purchase single tickets and VIP Series Passes Online. The Opening Night Premiere is "BLAZE", Directed by Ethan Hawke, who will attend the Premiere on April 20th at 8pm, in person to accept his Remi Career Achievement Award for his remarkable 3 decades of brilliant films! The Opening Night World Premiere of Panorama China is NINE TO NIRVANA, Directed By Evan Lu, Beijing, China!
There is a special Encore Screening of THE DIVIDE, a modern day Western, with Perry King - The Director, on hand for its Premiere. There is also a special screening of the 25th Anniversary Edition of JURASSIC PARK! And almost 200 film premieres for all kinds of Film Buffs!
We are closing with DISOBEDIENCE, directed by Sebastian Lelio at 7pm on Sunday, April the 29th! The Panorama China Official Closing Night Film is LORD OF SHANGHAI, directed by Sherwood Hu. There are 9 Master Classes in many aspects of film/video production, including the use of Drones in filmmaking, Investing in Feature Films, how to obtain amazing free stock footage from NASA and many more important subjects! All Master Classes are held at the HQ Marriott Westchase Hotel with very special rates for Filmmakers and Filmbuffs.
The Festival Club is located in the HQ Marriott Westchase Hotel for great networking with more than 1,000 Intl filmmakers attending over the ten-day festival. All Premieres at the HQ Memorial City Cinemark Theatres! WorldFest is the only film festival in the Whole Wide World with a VIP Tour of NASA, a Texas BBQ, Longhorn Steer Photo Ops and the annual WorldFest Consular Regatta at the classic Houston Yacht Club on Closing Day! Lots more great premiere info at https://worldfest.org
WorldFest gave 1st Honors to Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, Ethan Hawke, John Lee Hancock, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Francis Ford Coppola, Randal Kleiser and hundreds more filmmakers! This years Remi Winners will be the Ang Lees and Spielbergs of Tomorrow!
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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 |
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