“Save The Date” for WorldFest Houston Film Festival ~2010    

 

Why:           WorldFest showcases and celebrates the best and brightest emerging cinematic talents over 10 action-packed days in April 2010. Film lovers can be among the first to see and meet the stars and directors of tomorrow at the 43^rd Annual WorldFest-Houston.

 

        

·      55 award-winning Indie films

·      100 superb short films

·      450 Indie filmmakers from around the globe

·      6 Master Classes/Film industry seminars

·      1 Grand Awards Gala & Cocktail Reception with the filmmakers

·      Closing Day Regatta/Barbecue & VIP NASA/Space Center Houston Tour

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Background: WorldFest, founded in 1961, is the third oldest International film festival in the United States and the oldest Independent Film Festival in the world. This annual event has evolved into a competitive Independent International film festival showcasing the rising stars of tomorrow! WorldFest is managed by Hunter Todd and Kathleen Haney. WorldFest is produced by a core staff of key individuals, dedicated volunteers, and industry professionals who make the detailed work of running a world-class international film festival possible. WorldFest Houston is a non-profit educational and cultural organization with a 501 (c)-(3) status.

 

For more information about WorldFest, its annual competition, and past winners, visit www.worldfest.org.

 

Media Contacts:

* THE YOUNGEST SON (IL FIGLIO PIÙ PICCOLO) Pupi & Antonio Avat i~ ITALY ~An amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.   Panorama Italia

BAMBARA WALALLA          Athula Liyanage         SRI LANKA ~After his jailtime for having killed the step-father who raped his sister, Podi Eka, an uneducated Sri Lankan man goes through many changes in a life of rags-to-riches. WORLD Premiere

THE BE ALL AND END ALL  Bruce Webb- UK ~ A teenage boy from Liverpool, diagnosed with a fatal illness, tries everything to get his last wish fulfilled with his best friend’s help.

BERGFEST Florian Eichinger – GERMANY/UK ~ After 8 years of estrangement from his overbearing Father, Hannes takes his fiancée to the family mountain hut in the Bavarian Alps to have her meet him but Hannes must face some bitter truths about his past.   N. American Premiere

BONDED PARALLELS Hovhannes Galstyan- ARMENIA/NORWAY~ The stories of 2 women take place -one in Norway at the end of World War II, and the other in Soviet Armenia in 1988--become intertwined.        N. American Premiere

* CHAMELEON Krisztina Goda - HUNGARY~ Office cleaner, Gabor is actually a slick & irresistible con-man but he falls for Hanna his latest victim after telling her that as a Doctor he can cure her. 

* THE FROST Ferran Audi- SPAIN/NORWAY ~ After the accidental death of their only son, Rita and Alfred feel such remorse that they engage in a fierce fight of mutual destruction

* GENERAL NIL Ryszard Bugajski- POLAND ~A reconstruction of the last few years in the life of the top leaders of the Polish underground Home Army (AK), General Emil 'Nil' Fieldorf.      

* DISRUPT / DISMANTLE Jack Lucarelli - USA ~ Hard realities intertwine when an elite division of L.A. undercover narcotics cops, Division 123, begins to peel away the layers of a powerful drug cartel to undermine their manipulative influence.

* FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG: THE STORY OF ANDERSON FAIR Bruce Bryant HOUSTON,TX ~ For 40 years, legendary folk & acoustic music venue, Anderson Fair Retail Restaurant, has fostered & nurtured some of the most important USA performers & songwriters. 

* GODFORSAKEN    Jamil Dehlavi – UK~  A fallen angel seeks redemption for the death of a child under his protection. N. American premiere.

* IN/SIGNIFICANT OTHERS  John Schwert- USA ~ This multi-narrative drama navigates the different lives of one city's residents, all connected through the same local homicide investigation.

* LA MISSION Peter Bratt – CA, USA - Reformed inmate & recovering alcoholic, Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt) has worked hard to redeem his life & raise his pride & joy, only son, Jes, whom he has raised on his own after the death of his wife. Che’s path to redemption is tested, however, when he discovers Jes is gay

* LOSING YOU  Ian Clay-  USA ~ Jordan, an LA actor, suspects that girlfriend, Cassie, now in Nashville may have been sexually assaulted, so he drives cross country with best friend, Calvin, to find her.  WORLD Premiere

LOVE LIFE OF A GENTLE COWARD Pavo Marinkovic-CROATIA~Saša is an unsuccessful writer with an unstable private life who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he falls in love with Ines…

* MAYA         Michal Bat-Adam  ISRAEL ~ Maya, a struggling actress get the role of a lifetime in a play, but becomes involved romantically with the director whose notion of her role as the psychiatric patient is very different from her own. WORLD Premiere

* PASTOR SHEPHERD   Edwin Marshall –USA ~ The quirky tale of a down-on-his-luck freeze-dried-pet-salesman and his journey to become the first-ever-cyber-evangelist. WORLD Premiere

* POINT OF DEATH Corey Seymour –USA (Houston) ~ What does a man experience when he's reaching his last breath…when he's between heaven and hell… WORLD Premiere

SOLITAIRE  Francesco Campanini- ITALY ~ After a three-billion-lire hit and a bloody hold-up, Leo Piazza becomes the sole survivor of a heist gone bad with the killers drawing ever closer determined to retrieve their loot from him in an ultimate showdown. N. American Premiere/ Panorama Italia

* TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: KA SHEN'S JOURNEY   Docu-drama - Brian Jamieson CA, USA - Hong Kong born Eurasian actress, Nancy Kwan, revisits her past from her early youth in warn-torn China to her compelling journey to becoming one of Hollywood's first "It" girls from the Orient.

* OY VEY, MY SON IS GAY! - Romantic comedy - Evgeny Afineevsky       -LA,CA, USA - A romantic comedy about how far we have come and yet how far we still have to go, when two families must come to terms with their sons love for each other and their adoption of a baby.

* Director is planning to attend WorldFest