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All of us at Team WorldFest wish you...
A truly Bountiful Thanksgiving: we wish you wonderful moments with your family, friends and co-workers in this delightful holiday season of giving and warmth!
We hope that your Thanksgiving 2019 is the ver...
The 53rd WorldFest ~ EarlyBird Deadline!
Entered Online or Postmarked by Friday, November 15th!
Just enter Online via our website or via FilmFreeway.com!
But No Worries - The Main Entry Deadline is December 15th, 2019 and
the Final Brick Wall Deadline is January 15th, 2020.
Go for your chance at the Remi Award - at the 53rd Annual WorldFest-Houston!
The festival will be celebrated April...
Enter the 53rd WorldFest-Houston and be part of history and the future with the oldest fiercely independent international film festival!
For our 53rd year, we are honoring the 100th year of the genius of Federico Fellini, with special screenings of his films, including: LA DOLCE VITA, AMARCORD, LA STRADA & 8 1/2!
Entries are now officially open for the 53rd WorldFest-Houston! Offering International Competition in...
Zaza Memorial City is 1 mile away from festival hotspot (Westin hotel and Cinemark multiplex) A retreat in style for the festival VIPs :-)
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Learn from the festival director who gave their first festival prize to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen brothers, : the mission, th ehistory, the gala, the regatta, the city, the ambiance : things you need to know about Worldfest Houston.
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We met Jeffery Patterson and the cast of one of the 2 films he showed at Worldfest Houston, in a private diner with festival founders, Hunter and Kathleen Todd.
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Congratulations to the award winners of WorldFest 52! Now, they are celebrated with a lavish barbQ and a regatta, the only festival in world whihc has filmmakers sailing in a regatta!. Buses left the Westin, the festival hotspot hotel for a visit to Nasa at 10 am on the dot.
It was followed at the yacht club by a Texas BBQ, Space adventures and something no other film festival in the world has to offer, their own regatta.
Thanks to the Houston Yacht Club and the Consular Corps for their supp...
"Malania and I join in applauding the hardworking men and women who made this event possible"...Donald Trump
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Join Joe Leydon, professor and columnist as he moderates a conversation with three of our award winning film directors during WorldFest’s 52nd edition during opening weekend.
Kevin Sorbo, director, “Miracle in East Texas”, inspired by a true story of 2 con men, ‘Doc’ Boyd (Kevin Sorbo) and ‘Dad’ (John Ratzenberger) who work their way through Texas in the 1930’s evoking wildcatter days of Spindletop and beyond.
Richard Krevolin, directed W...
Master/Class Sessions
Also of note is our Master Class/ Seminar schedule (all seminars at The Westin Hotel 945 Gessner Rd. Houston, TX 77024 --- open to public and tickets starting at $50 per seminar)
Thursday, April 11th
9:00 AM “A Career in Filmmaking 101” Erik Calderon, owner of FLMC Films (this seminar is free with student ID)
10:00 AM – “So You Want to Make a Movie?” Nick Nicholson national film critic
1:00 PM - “Cut to the Dog&rdqu...
10 APR 2019@ 5 PM
Drama/Comedy Shorts
Campesino Trailer
Blue Amber (Panorama China)
10 APR 2019@ 7 PM
School Service
Bob & Mary's
The Wake of Light Trailer
Consciousness Trailer
10 APR 2019@ 9 PM
Live Life Trailer
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Mid-stride at WorldFest-Houston with Day Five, Tuesday, April 10 the exciting film line-up continues to unspool! This year is another great cornucopia for true film buffs offering several compelling World Premieres from over 70 Indie features; the Fourteenth Annual Italian Panorama with a comedic flair and great diversity; a fine contingency of films from India, South Africa, The Philippines; and much more! Now posted on the WorldFest-Houston website (www.worldfest.org) designed by Lopez Negre...
Learn from the festival director who gave their first festival prize to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, the Coen brothers, : the mission, th ehistory, the gala, the regatta, the city, the ambiance : things you need to know about Worldfest Houston.
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9 APR 2019@ 5 PM
Drama Shorts #3
American Ghost Tail + Shorts Feature
Tian Long Ba Bu (Panorama China) Feature
9 APR 2019@ 7 PM
My Dear Elephant (Panorama China) Feature
Houston/Texas Shorts
The Rita G. Affair + The Nixie Feature T...
I totally enjoyed watching Wolf Warrior 2 the Chinese action film directed by Wu Jing, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Celina Jade, Frank Grillo...
The film scored just under 900M$ at the chinese Box Office! a true phenomenom
The film is non stop action,with spectacular explosions, killings, fights, a touch of romance at the end of course (the lead character, special forces combat retired officer) is so busy saving everyone else and killing hundreds of bad guys that he c...
We met Jeffery Patterson and the cast of one of the 2 films he showed at Worldfest Houston, in a private diner with festival founders, Hunter and Kathleen Todd.
PRODUCED BY: Once Upon A Dream Productions Jeffery Patterson @TheJefferyP
In the vein of Tender Mercies and Crazy Heart comes Finding Harmony, a multi-generational southern drama about the wounds we carry, and those we leave behind. When legendary music producer, JT Grayson, passes away, he leaves the Fame Ranch to his e...
Kevin and Sam Sorbo received their Platinum Remi Award for best romantic comedy from Festival director Hunter Todd.
The filmmakers were flying to Europe and could not stsay for the closing awards ceremony.
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8 APR 2019@ 5 PM
Texas Shorts #1
Blooming Village (Panorama China)
Black Flowers Trailer
8 APR 2019@ 7 PM
Texas Shorts #2
Lone Star Deception
Gathering (Panorama China)
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7 APR 2019@ 1 PM
Animation/Family/Children Shorts
Sci-Fi Shorts #2
Drama Shorts #2
7 APR 2019@ 3 PM
Sci-Fi Shorts #3
Drama/Adaptation Shorts
Journey to Hope Feature T...
Check our playlist with trailers and ambiance
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Kevin and Sam Sorbo received their Platinum Remi Award for best romantic comedy from Festival director Hunter Todd.
The filmmakers were flying to Europe and could not stsay for the closing awards ceremony.
Hunter Todd introducing each film
6 APR 2019@ 1 PM
Drama Shorts #1
Comedy-Dark/Romantic
Reign Behind the Curtain (Panorama China) Feature
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Tim Disney with Festival founder Hunter Todd at the festival opening party which followed the screening of his film William.
Indie filmmaker Tim Disney (son of the late, Disney senior executive Roy E. Disney) premiered in Texas a week before the US release of his film WILLIAM, he directed from a script he co-wrote with J.T. Allen.
Filmfestivals.com chatted briefly with Tim.
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Don't be shy if you are happy say it!
We have selected a few for you below, more online on the website of the festival!
Everything was laid out impeccably, and everyone was extremely nice and efficient. Already my Gold Award had wielded some power...
Dave Bartholomew, Hyphenate Productions
WorldFest itself had a lot to offer both the Houston film going public and distributors looking for films for distribution. I was treated like a real VIP in Houston.
Adam Rogers, Vice Pr...
The 52nd WorldFest-Houston Premiere Schedule for Cinemark-Memorial City!
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About WorldFest Houston
 Haney Kathleen
(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.
She has served on several international juries and also directs the WorldFest Screenplay Competition.
Hunter Todd is the Chairman & Founding Director of WorldFest-Houston. A former filmmaker, he produced, directed and shot more than 300 films of all types - from features to TV Commercials, and was awarded 117 Intl Awards. He is a retired USCG/Merchant Marine Captain and still sails as much as possible, including the annual HYC Regatta at WorldFest. Married with a 21 going-on-29 daughter who is attending Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. He has served on the Intl juries of more than 25 festivals, most recently was President of the Intl Jury of the Concorto Intl Film Festival in Italy and The Golden Bell TV Festival in Seoul, Korea...
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