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WORLDFEST
HOUSTON
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Entry Team WorldFest - 2004
37th Annual WorldFest-Houston
9494 SW FREEWAY,
5TH FLOOR, HOUSTON, TEXAS USA 77074
PO Box 56566, Houston, Texas 77256-6566 USA
or call: 1-713-965-9955 or fax: 1-713-965-9960
Website: www.worldfest.org
E-mail: entry@worldfest.org
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"
FORGET SUNDANCE!
…WorldFest is one of the best conceived festival productions
on the planet!" ~ Craig Outhier, film critic, Phoenix press;
Tempe Times.
The
37th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues
its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the
upcoming April 16-25, 2004 unspooling. WorldFest will screen just
50-60 feature film premieres, 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 EARLY BIRD (discount)
Deadline
for entries is Nov. 15th 2003; the main Entry Deadline is Dec.
15th 2003, with a FINAL Deadline of Jan. 15th 2004 (late fee). Entry
forms & complete entry information is on our website (www.worldfest.org).
Entries officially opened August 1st, 2003 for competition in the
37th Annual WorldFest. WorldFest Artistic and Program Director,
Kathleen Haney, stated, "We are continuing our focus on 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. In consideration of both our festival audiences and the independent
filmmakers, we feel that a solid high-quality program of no more
than 60 features is optimum in a ten-day festival with twelve screening
slots (on three theater screens) per day." Haney continued,
"We are looking for 'A good story, well told' as our time-tested
approach to film selection. We have special sidebars of Foreign,
Children's and Family Film Sections. All of our films are totally
Indie productions, and each film is well represented by their filmmakers,
who attend to introduce their films!" All 35mm & DVD films
are screened at the NOVA Meyerland Theater, host of the 2004 WorldFest,
the Indie Film Festival for the New Millennium. (For complete winner
info from 2003, go to www.worldfest.org )
WorldFest
will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a special review
of 100 new short and student films...from the festival that gave
first honors to Spielberg, Lucas, The Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott,
Robert Rodriguez, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, and David Lynch, among
many others! No other festival has such a "discovery"
track record. WorldFest has emerged as the oldest film festival
management in the world with the same director, continuously for
37 consecutive years. A few other festivals are older, but they
have had as many as ten different directors.
Most USA Film Festivals today have evolved into publicity platforms
for major studio distributors. WorldFest showcases the true independent
film, offering a fiercely dedicated special venue for directors
searching for an independent forum for their works. WorldFest continues
with a focused emphasis on new, premiering films that are seeking
a distributor. The Festival also screens DVD video via Christie
Digital DLP Projection and Wagner Media, major sponsors of the festival,
in addition to 35mm film.
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Meet
the Staff
Kathleen
Todd, the program & artistic director is to Hunter Todd's right
(the fest director is the only one with a beard on this picture).
Their daughter Katy Lea, a true veteran of more than 30 intl film
festivals,
is in front... plus the rest of our talented office staff with some
of festival's
posters displayed in the lobby...
The entire WorldFest staff is over 100, including theater staff,
drivers,
projectionists, film transport, etc.)
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By
having a small, highly selective schedule of new Indie films,
WorldFest can better showcase each film and spotlight its individual
character, rather than merely act as a preview platform for an upcoming
regional release from a large US distributor. Most of the so-called
'Independent Films' featured at other festivals are actually high
budget films produced by one of the major studios' special "Indie"
divisions. In fact, most of the films featured at Sundance actually
already have their distribution deals well in place.
The 120-page WorldFest program book is distributed to every major
film festival in the world and to every known major distributor
in the world. This detailed film catalogue has become an invaluable
reference document for film acquisition and review.
WorldFest traces its actual beginnings to August 1961, when it began
screening foreign & art films as Cinema Arts, an international
film society. It became a 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. Now there
are more than 600 USA film festivals of various levels and quality,
most being just non-competitive screening events!
The 37th Annual WorldFest also offers international competition
in TV production, TV commercials, unproduced Screenplays & Teleplays,
Experimental, Student, Documentary, Business & Industry, New
Media, Radio, Print and Music Videos. WorldFest is the largest film
& video competition in the world, with more than 4,300 category
entries received in 2002. There are almost 200 sub-categories for
competition, allowing each film to compete in its own genre.
WorldFest offers more than $25,000 in cash grants and film &
equipment awards, including the $2500 Eastman Kodak Student Award,
and the $10,000 HP Crystal Vision Award.
For more information on the 37th Annual 2004 WorldFest-Houston,
plus the free four-color 26x36 poster designed by the creative team
at Bates Southwest, with the entry & information kit on back
of the poster, send your name and address to:
All
entry forms, photos, entry fees and entries should be sent together
in the same pack to:
ENTRY SECTION, TEAM WORLDFEST-HOUSTON
9494 SW FREEWAY, 5TH FLOOR, HOUSTON, TEXAS USA 77074
QUESTIONS? Answers! (713) 965-9955 or email: mail@worldfest.org
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