The WorldFest Houston Call For Entries

The 49th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the upcoming April 8-17, 2016 unspooling.

WorldFest will screen just 50-60 feature film premieres and over 130 Shorts with a total and absolute emphasis on the American and International Independent feature films and a continuing annual spotlight on award-winning short films and documentary films. The Main Entry Deadline has been extended to December 31, 2015.

WorldFest Artistic and Program Director, Kathleen Haney, stated, We are fiercely dedicated to the Indie Feature and Short Film and look for a quality selection of individual films to maintain a smaller, yet effective program rather than an overly large and unwieldy slate of 150-300 films. Haney continued, For the 2016 WorldFest we continue to use A good story, well told' as our time-tested approach to film selection .

After he received the WorldFest Grand Remi Award, Ridley Scott commented WorldFest is in the business of validating excellence! The mission of WorldFest is to recognize and validate creative excellence in film & video production in every facet and category of filmmaking. Many filmmakers report that a Remi Award from WorldFest opens doors to advance their careers.

WorldFest will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a special review of 130 new short and student films...from the festival that gave first top honors to Spielberg, Lucas, The Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee, Gavin Hood, John Lee Hancock, Michael Cimino, Leslie Linka Glatter, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan and David Lynch, among many others! Few other festivals have such a Discovery track record. WorldFest has emerged as the oldest continuous film festival management in the world with the same executive director, serving for 49 consecutive years. A few other festivals are older, but they have had as many as ten different directors. It is the oldest film festival in The South, and the 3rd oldest International Film/Video Festival in North America, after San Francisco & NYC.

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The 49th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival offers a Red Carpet Opening Night Gala, the Remi Awards Banquet with top honors presented to more than 500 up-and-coming attending filmmakers from over 35 countries from round the globe, there are 9 Master Classes in Film & Video Production, a nightly Festival Club at the HQ Hotel for networking, Indie Panels, a VIP tour of NASA and an exciting Houston Yacht Club Sailing Regatta & Texas BBQ.

WorldFest began in August 1961, as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society. It began screening Independent, foreign & art films. It became an officially competitive International Film Festival seven years later, in April 1968, and has been in continuous operation since. It is one of the original three film festivals in North America, with San Francisco and New York as the first two events. Following WorldFest was Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, and Seattle. Then Sundance and SXSW, Toronto and Tribeca. Now there are more than 3,000 USA film festivals of various types, levels and quality, most being simply non-competitive screening events! WorldFest is international, competitive and invites filmmakers worldwide.

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. You may enter the Feature, Short, Student, Experimental, Student, Music Video, and New Media-Websites via FestHome. You must go to our main website to enter the TV Production, TV Commercial, Film & Video Production and the Screenplay Competition. WorldFest is the largest film & video competition in the world, in sheer number of actual category entries, with more than 4,500 category entries received in 2015. There are almost 200 sub-categories for competition, allowing each film to compete in its own individual genre.

WorldFest-Houston is sponsored by the State of Texas, the City of Houston, HBU Fitness Center, Kodak, NASA, AMC Theaters, Lopez Negrete Communications, Boxer Properties, Wagner Media, The HQ Hotel Doubletree by Hilton, The Houston Chronicle, Regent University Film School, the Houston Film Society and the Houston Arts Alliance (HAA).

The 49th WorldFest-Houston - 9898 Bissonnet, Suite 650, Houston, Texas 77036, 713-965-9955, Fax is 713-965-9960 - Email is - entry@worldfest.org - The website is https://worldfest.org

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