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39th WorldFest Houston
April 21-30, 2006
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39th
WORLDFEST HOUSTON
Team
WorldFest - 2006
39th Annual WorldFest-Houston
9494 SW FREEWAY,
5TH FLOOR, HOUSTON, TEXAS USA 77074
PO Box 56566, Houston, Texas 77256-6566 USA
Tel: 1-713-965-9955 or fax
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.
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 800 USA film festivals of various levels and quality,
most being just non-competitive screening events!
The 39th
Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues
its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the
upcoming April 21-30, 2006 unspooling.
The 39th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival is
moving on the edge of the wave by streaming all Features and Short
Independent Films from the upcoming April 21-30, 2006 festival.
WorldFest will stream full trailers for all 50-60 feature film premieres
and all 100+ Remi Short film winners. This makes WorldFest the first
international film festival to offer the entire festival program
to Internet users all over the globe. Using the latest wide band-width
technology provided by Sponsor/Partner 247Show.com, WorldFest will
be able to offer this unprecedented spotlight on award-winning features,
short films and documentary films.
Each year WorldFest
creates another delectable menu of film-fare from around the world
for our local audiences! WorldFest- Houston will present 100 award-winning
short film subjects as tasty desserts. WorldFest will screen approximately
50 feature films, with an absolute emphasis on American and International
Independently made feature films.
For complete winner info from 2005, 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, John Lee Hancock, Michael Cimino, Steven
Poster, 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 39 consecutive
years. A few other festivals are older, but they have had as many
as ten different directors!
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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!
39th
WORLDFEST HOUSTON CALL FOR ENTRIES
The 39th 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 2005. There are almost 200 sub-categories for competition,
allowing each film to compete in its own genre.
Entries for the 39th Annual WorldFest officially opened August 15
2005.
The Main Entry Deadline is December 15th, 2005.
Entries are accepted to January 31, 2005 with the late fee of $15
per entry after Dec. 15..
Please email or call if you need a special deadline extension!
Worldfest will
complete the jury sessions in all categories by 15 March 2006, and
all entrants will be informed personally of the results of the competition,
win or lose!
All entry forms, photos, entry fees and entries should be sent together
in the same pack to:
Entry Team WorldFest - 2006
39th Annual WorldFest-Houston
PO Box 56566, Houston, Texas 77256-6566 USA
or call: 1-713-965-9955 or fax: 1-713-965-9960
or simply email at: entry@worldfest.org
The complete Entry Kit with Entry Forms - is on the website: www.worldfest.org
ENTRY FORM URL
Link to Filmfestivals.com
database: Click
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