The 53rd Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival is now officially open for entries! WorldFest offers competition for Shorts, Documentaries, Feature Films, Music Videos, Experimental & Student Films on the Silver Screens of the wonderful Memorial City Cinemark Theatres, with over 1,000 international filmmakers attending the 10-day International Film Festival!

Enter the festival that gave first honors to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Ang Lee, the Coen Brothers, Randal Kleiser, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, David Lynch, John Sayles, Robert Townsend, Deepa Mehta, Agnieszka Holland, John Frankenheimer, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater, Jonathan Demme, John Boorman, Martin Brest, Lesli Linka Glatter, Hal Hartley, Will Vinton, Hugh Wilson, Michael Cimino, Gavin Hood, David Winning and John Lee Hancock!

This is America’s Discovery Film Festival – We’re Fiercely Independent!

Competition in 10 major categories with 200 sub-categories to ensure you are judged with your peers for the chance to win a coveted Remi Award!

Ten great days in April, at the beautiful Memorial City Cinemark Theatres. Here’s a taste of what WorldFest-Houston has waiting for you: see your film on a big screen; network with filmmakers from more than 70 countries; enjoy the Festival Club every night at our headquarters hotel, the Memorial City Westin/Marriott, parties at the VIP Hotel Zaza, walk the Red Carpet; attend more than 200 new film Premieres; learn at 9 Master Classes on filmmaking, from Drone Photography to using Free NASA stock footage; relax at the VIP Police Escort Tour of NASA & Rocket Park; enjoy the Houston Yacht Club/Consular Regatta & Texas BBQ! 

See the largest survey in North America of New Asian & Chinese independent & major studio films from Beijing & Shanghai with over 200 Asian Filmmakers attending our remarkable 6th Annual Panorama Asia, the largest Major Spotlight on Asian & Chinese Cinema in the film festival world!

Enjoy great new films from Italy in our 15th Annual Panorama Italia, with the Italian Directors in person to intro the film and meet the audience! 

All at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston Intl Film Festival, April 17-26, 2020.

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The 53rd Call For Entries!

WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival offers international competition in Ten Major Competition Categories! Features, Shorts, Docs/Business Films, Student, Experimental, Screenplays, New Media, TV Production, TV Commercials, & Music Videos! More than 200 sub-categories for fair competition. Only at WorldFest-Houston are you selected as a Remi Award Winner on the basis of your numerical score from the juries, which greatly increases your chance to win a Remi, unlike other festivals that only give out one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze! Only 10%-15% of entries actually win the coveted Remi Award!

You may enter Online via our entry platform - www.worldfest.org, or via FilmFreeway.com - we now accept entries via Vimeo & YouTube, in addition to DVD/BR Entries, & USB/Jump Drives. Screenplay entries must be bound. We will confirm when we receive your entry and we provide personal Jury Results, and festival details when you are selected for screening at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival!

All Remi Winners receive a complimentary $1,000 VIP Platinum All Festival Pass, deep discounts at the HQ Westin Hotel, plus very special discounts for your guests. 

To enter, simply visit us at - https://worldfest.org

Quick & Easy. Be part of the only film festival that discovered the Coen Brothers (Blood Simple), Francis Ford Coppola (Producer THX1138), John Lee Hancock (Screenplay, Short & Feature), Randal Kleiser (Peege, Flight of the Navigator, Grease), Ang Lee (Pushing Hands), George Lucas (Director-THX1138), David Lynch (The Grandmother), Robert Rodriguez (Bedhead), Lesli Linka Glatter (Tales of Meeting and Parting), Gavin Hood (A Reasonable Man, The Storekeeper), Michael Cimino (Yesterdays TVC for Kodak), Ridley Scott (1984 Apple TVC), Steven Spielberg (Amblin'), David Winning (Won over 35 Remi Awards since 1985 & the Grand Remi in our 51st!), Oliver Stone (Salvador), and more than a hundred other top directors! Join these amazing and wonderful WorldFestHouston International Film Festival Alumni!

We welcome your entry and look forward to seeing you at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston International Film/Video Festival. "Quite Possibly the best organized Film Festival in the World!" According to the Arizona Times film reviewer!