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The 39th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the upcoming April 21-30, 2006 unspooling. WorldFest will screen just 56 feature film premieres, with a total and absolute emphasis on the American and International Independent feature films and with a continuing annual spotlight on 96 award-winning short films and documentary films. Complete Film schedule and ticket information is now on our website (http://www.wo
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For more info: Contact ~ Kathleen Haney, Program Director (713) 965-9955
39th WORLDFEST-HOUSTON SETS PREMIERES & SCHEDULE!
“ FORGET SUNDANCE! …WorldFest is one of the best conceived festival productions on the planet!” ~ Craig Outhier, film critic, Phoenix press; Tempe Times.
The 39th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the upcoming April 21-30, 2006 unspooling. WorldFest will screen just 56 feature film premieres, with a total and absolute emphasis on the American and International Independent feature films and with a continuing annual spotlight on 96 award-winning short films and documentary films. Complete Film schedule and ticket information is now on our website (http://www.worldfest.org)
This year WorldFest is streaming its Short Film winners, and trailers of all Feature Films via our partnership with 247Show.com. You can visit our website and click on the short or feature you want to view, and it will stream via the very high band-width of 247Show.com … You can also read and post comments on the films and the top entries will win cash prizes based on total votes received and WorldFest-Houston is the first and only international film festival offering such a program. Some the WorldFest Remi Award Winners have been viewed by more than 15,000 people all over the world.
The Opening Night World Premiere for WorldFest is Paradise, Texas starring Timothy Bottoms, Meredith Baxter, Polly Bergen, and 1st time Houston actor, Ben Estus. They are all expected to attend. This year the festival is premiering a total of 12 Houston-connected films, including both Shorts and Features. Other Houston connected films include A-List - Shira-Lee & Damon Shalit, ELCX-Planet Funk - Shawn Welling, Boy Next Door - Travis Davis, Into The Wind - Chris Page, Jack Everyman - Larry Czach, Miles To Surf - James Fulbright, The Fax - Matthew Kowalski, Be Bop Babies - Gail Reaben, Thumb POW - Joey Clark, Half Empty - Robert Peters, Common Practice - Marcos Efron.
WorldFest Artistic and Program Director, Kathleen Haney, said, “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 nine 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 plus Remi Award winning Documentaries. All of our films are totally Indie productions, and each film is well represented by their filmmakers, who attend to personally introduce their films!”
WorldFest will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a very special review of 96 new short and student films...from the festival that gave first honors to Spielberg, Lucas, 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 38 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 sho
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