OUR GOAL
Our goal is to discover and showcase creative filmmakers and their films to the global culturally diversified community.
WORLDFEST NOW ACCEPTS ONLINE FESTHOME SCREENERS! WE HAVE LG & SHARP 110" DIGITAL BIG SCREENS FOR JURIES! WE DO ALSO ACCEPT DVD, BLURAY OR USB FLASH/PEN/JUMP DRIVE FOR JUDGING AND FOR THEATER SCREENING! Region Zero! (If you win a Remi, you may be screened on big Cinemark Theatre screens to 600+ theater audience!! So we need a BluRay, DCP or Jump Drive for the DCP screening! Large juries view your entry on a big digital screen, not a little laptop! We will personally confirm your entry's arrival.
WorldFest is the only film festival in the world that gives your entry a grade, a score! Your score can earn you a Remi Award! We do not believe that there can just be three winners in a category, a Gold, Silver and Bronze - so we assign your entry a score from the jury! An A+ wins a Special Jury Award and is considered for the Grand Remi! An A score wins a Platinum Remi, an A- wins a Gold, a B+ wins a Silver and a B wins a Bronze Remi. No Awards are made below a B level score. With more than 4,750 category entries, only about 10-15% actually win a Remi Award, but we feel it is the best possible way to run a festival awards system!
55th WORLDFEST-HOUSTON SETS FEST DATES, CALLS FOR ENTRIES!
“FORGET SUNDANCE! …WorldFest is one of the best conceived festival productions on the planet!” ~ Craig Outhier, film critic, Phoenix press; Tempe Times.
The 55th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival continues its totally dedicated Independent Film screening format for the upcoming April 20-24, 2022 unspooling. WorldFest will screen just 60-80 feature film premieres and over 130 Shorts with a total and absolute emphasis on the American and International Independent feature film and a continuing annual spotlight on award-winning short films and documentary films. Entries Officially Open Aug. 15, 2021. The EarlyBird Entry Deadline is Nov. 15th 2021 – A Mail-By/Enter By/Ship-By Deadline! Entries do not have to arrive by this deadline. The Main Entry Deadline is December 15, 2021. The Late Entry Deadline is Jan 15th 2022!
WorldFest Artistic and Program Director, Kathleen Haney, stated, “We are fiercely dedicated to the Indie Feature and Short Film and look for 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. Haney continued, “For the 2020 WorldFest we continue to use ‘A good story, well told’ as our time-tested approach to film selection”. WorldFest-Houston now accepts Online, Thumb-Drive & DVD/BR format entries.
This year WorldFest presents its 8th Annual Panorama Asia, the largest survey of new films from all of Asia & China in the whole, wide world! More than 200 directors and filmmakers will attend from Beijing, Shanghai, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia, VietNam, Cambodia, the Philippines & Japan. China is now the largest box-office and production revenue country in the world, surpassing the USA. There is a special Panorama Asia theater and a dedicated section of the program book.
WorldFest Grand Remi Award Winner, Ridley Scott commented “WorldFest is in the business of validating excellence!” We are delighted to agree! The mission of WorldFest is to recognize and validate creative excellence in film & video production in every facet and category of filmmaking. Many filmmakers report that a Remi Award from WorldFest opens doors to advance their careers.
WorldFest will continue with its annual Short Film Showcase, a special review of 130+ new short and student films...from the festival that gave first top honors to Spielberg, Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Randal Kleiser, The Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott, Robert Rodriguez, Spike Lee, Gavin Hood, John Lee Hancock, John Frankenheimer, Michael Cimino, Leslie Linka Glatter, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan and David Lynch, among many others! Few other festivals have such a “Discovery” track record. WorldFest has emerged as the oldest continuous film festival management in the world with the same executive director, serving with a special vision for 53 consecutive years. A few other festivals are older, but they have had as many as ten different directors. It is the oldest film festival in The South, and the 3rd oldest International Film/Video Festival in North America, after San Francisco & NYC.
The 55th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival highlights include a Red Carpet Opening Night Gala, the Remi Awards Banquet with top honors presented to more than 1,000 up-and-coming attending filmmakers from over 75 countries from round the globe, there are 9 Master Classes in Film & Video Production, a nightly Festival Club at the HQ Westin-Memorial City Hotel, Indie Panels, a VIP tour of NASA with a special police escort and an exciting Houston Yacht Club Sailing Regatta & Texas BBQ. All offer superb networking opportunities!
WorldFest began in August 1961, as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society. It began screening Independent, foreign & art films. It became an officially 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. Following WorldFest was Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, and Seattle. Then Sundance and SXSW, Toronto and Tribeca. Now there are more than 3,500 USA film festivals of various types, levels and quality, most being simply non-competitive screening events! WorldFest is international, competitive and invites filmmakers worldwide.
The 55th Annual WorldFest offers International Competition in; Features, Shorts, TV production, TV commercials, unproduced Screenplays & Teleplays, Experimental, Student, Documentary, Business & Industry, New Media, and Music Videos. You may enter the Feature, Short, Student, Experimental, Student, Music Video, and New Media-Websites via FestHome. You must go to our main website (worldfest.org) to enter the TV Production (100 series), TV Commercials (400 series), Film & Video Production (200 Series) and the Screenplay Competition (700 Series). WorldFest is the largest film & video competition in the world, in sheer number of actual category entries, with more than 4,750 category entries received in 2020. There are almost 200 sub-categories for competition, allowing each film to compete in its own individual genre.
WorldFest-Houston is sponsored by Memorial City Mall, Cinemark Theatres, Boxer Properties, the State of Texas, the City of Houston, HBU Fitness Center, Kodak, NASA, Lopez Negrete Communications, the Houston Yacht Club, Maggiano's Ristorante, Avis/Budget, The HQ Hotels Westin & Zaza, The Houston Chronicle, Regent University Film School, the Houston Yacht Club, and the Houston Film Society
The 55th WorldFest-Houston – 9898 Bissonnet, Suite 650, Houston, Texas 77036, 713-965-9955, Fax is 713-965-9960 – Email is – info@worldfest.org – The website is https://worldfest.org
Cinémonde is a smart, elegant private film series with screenings of thought-provoking films throughout the year, including discussions and gourmet receptions for our participants and guest filmmakers.
The international film festival for children and adolescents MI PRIMER FESTIVAL, is exited to announce its call for entries for its second edition on 28th of November of 2015 that will take place at MALI Museum of Art of Lima, Peru.
MI PRIMER FESTIVAL its non-competitive festival that aims to bring a vibrant and youthful vibe to the city, boosting and creating exhibition spaces for films and audio-visual content target to children and adolescent public. The festival provides Peruvian children an opportunity to understand different cultures from all over the world, and helps international children’s film professionals exchange experiences and ideas.
This year the festival will feature the following categories: • Full length animation and / or fiction (designed for children). • Full length animation films, fiction or documentary (directed at teenagers). • Short animation and / or fiction (designed for children). • Short animation, fiction or documentary (directed at teenagers). • Films made by children and adolescents (Peru).
Beginning Film Festival is held annually in the centre of St.Petersburg, Russia.
Founded by St.Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union, festival is held within St.Petersburg International Film Forum.
This year our festival for the first time focuses on debuts and film school productions, which means that our traditional student film program will be accompanied by two competitions - feature debut films and short fiction, documentary and animation debut films.
We will be happy to offer not only the expanded competition program, but several non-competition, presentation programs, thematic screenings, master-classes and workshops, round tables and exhibitions.
The festival is a platform for showcasing the best films from around the world, as well as a platform of professional people that helps the growth and form the local film industry.
The festival has two major international competitions, non-competition program, and panorama of documentary films.
ZINEMA ZOMBIE FEST (ZZF)
International Festival of fantasy film.
Mission
Rehabilitate souls in pain, re-insert undead and generally encourage all kinds of beings wandering without destiny by the real world - and the underworld-celluloid to resume his passion unbridled by the fantastic cinema.
Company profile
Zinema Zombie Fest is a Festival of fantastic film, Terror and subgenres. Film content, editorial, history and aesthetics, make pioneer in Colombia. Zinema Zombie, the entity responsible for this project, has a history of more than ten (12) years developing film exhibition and formation of public activities.
The festival has been involved repeatedly in exhibitions and festivals at the national and international levels; among which we can mention: SITGES Film Festival, Festival international de cinema Cali (Colombia), soft Film Festival (Mexico), film Fantasy (Brazil), Nocturna (Spain), Fixion SARS (Chile), FICH Macabro (Mexico), Tallinn Black Night Fil Festival (Estonia), among others.
Description
Zinema Zombie Fest is an event involved cultural, educational and non-profit. It is supported by the District Arts Institute (IDARTES) - which makes it a project of the city-by the Ministry of culture and PROIMÁGENES Colombia.
In the 2016 Zinema Zombie Fest (ZZF) reach its seventh uninterrupted year. The theme of the festival will be "Love hurts".
General information
ZINEMA ZOMBIE FEST
Festival of fantastic film, Terror and subgenres.
November 18 to 25 of 2016 / Bogota, Colombia
Cinemateca Distrital / cinema Tonala / Cine Colombia / Central University founders Hall
This is a 72-hour film festival. Each "production team" (friends, family, etc.) will be given a theme with an option of one of three pre-selected props.
With the provided instructions, each team must use the prop chosen and relate it to the theme.
Международный кинофестиваль в Картахене (FICCI) — это кинематографическое событие с социальным и культурным видением, которое по своему усмотрению является бесплатным и открытым для всех. Каждый год FICCI анализирует особенности Колумбии, Иберо-Америки и всего мира, предлагая издание мирового уровня, основанное на сохранении свободы и расширении культурного диалога с помощью фильмов, отраслевых собраний и научных мероприятий, которые актуальны, человечны, утончены и постоянно обсуждаются со своей аудиторией и представителями культуры. Фестиваль призван стать местом встреч и обмена опытом, платформой для повышения осведомленности людей, укрепления демократии и содействия созданию свободных, инклюзивных и сознательных обществ.
Международный кинофестиваль в Картахене (FICCI) — старейший и самый постоянный форум колумбийского, ибероамериканского и мирового кинематографа в Северной и Южной Америке. Этот 65-й кинофестиваль, активно присутствующий на мировой кинематографической карте с 1960 года, будет и впредь оставаться местом для воспоминаний, размышлений, разнообразия голосов и, как всегда, для лучших кинофилов.
Фестиваль ценит творческую свободу кинематографистов со всего мира и приветствует работы любого формата, длины, национальности, темы, жанра или техники. Мы ищем фильмы, отвечающие самым высоким стандартам качества, не боимся рисковать сюжетом и предлагать предложения, представляющие огромную человеческую и кинематографическую ценность, актуальные и ориентированные на устойчивое развитие.
The Wiper Film Festival is a place for filmmakers to put there work and get seen. It is also the place where a couple of lucky winners are going to have the privilege of having there films screened in a NYC, in front of industry heavyweights.
Goto: http://www.gowiper.com/video
and upload your videos today!
Film is an international medium that has its roots in the American inventors and entrepreneurs. This spirit is felt in every word of a script, every frame, every cell and every pixel of film produced around the world.
The American Film Award is a recognition of what it means to have that founding motivating force. It is much more than a trophy, it is a message that the spirit of film is alive.
The American Film Award is a mark of excellence in Film Craft.
Международный кинофестиваль Автономного университета Нижней Калифорнии способствует обмену опытом в области аудиовизуальной продукции, а также накоплению знаний вокруг кинематографического явления.
The Walthamstow International Film Festival is a launch platform for professional film-makers, experienced amateurs and first film-makers.
The International Film Festival Of Bihar "4th Darbhanga International Film Festival 2016"
An Initiative By Darbhanga Film Club
Coming February 2016
Last Date of Film Submission 10th December 2015.
12-е. Детский аудиовизуальный фестиваль (FICAIJ), 2021-2022
Венесуэла-Колумбия
Детский аудиовизуальный фестиваль, известный своим акронимом FICAIJ, родился в Мериде, Венесуэла, в 2010 году и консолидировался через 12 лет как один из самых важных окон для экспонирования качественного образовательного и альтернативного контента, а также коммерческого контента для детей, подростков, молодежи и семей в стране и регионе.
После участия в более чем 41 385 участников в своих 11 предыдущих изданиях, которые непосредственно повлияли в 6 странах мира. Столкнувшись с панорамой пандемии, что мы все еще живем через COVID-19, мы взяли на себя задачу трансформировать себя и активировать наше 12-е издание в Интернете с основным заболеванием в странах нашего региона. Кроме того, мы планируем провести очные показы в Венесуэле и Колумбии.
История:
Более 1506 короткометражных и длинных фильмов из 81 страны мира было транслировано на экранах ФИКАИЖ, и более 392 человека, включая детей, подростков, молодежь и взрослых, оценили и оценили эти фильмы.
Наши присяжные пришли не только из Венесуэлы, но и из 9 других стран: Аргентины, Бразилии, Кубы, Эквадора, Италии, Кении, Мексики, Испании и Южной Африки, которые участвуют в представлении мест их происхождения.
Философия:
Мы продвигаем аудиовизуальные материалы с рефлексивной и продуктивной точки зрения, приглашая детей, подростков и молодых людей играть активную роль в качестве создателей и пропагандистов.
Миссия:
ФИМАИЖ стремится поощрять создание, производство, демонстрацию и распространение качественных материалов для детей, подростков и молодежи в регионе, стимулируя роль детей во всех этих процессах.
2-й. Лаборатория FICAIJ:
С двойной целью укрепления, с одной стороны, производства материалов для детей, молодежи и семьи на региональном уровне, а с другой стороны, подготовки учителей в области образования со средствами массовой информации и для них, более очевидной необходимости с учетом цифрового образования, навязанного пандемией, организации FICAIJ берет на себя задачу разработки второго издания своей Laboratorio FICAIJ, учебного пространства, предназначенного для сектора производства содержания для латиноамериканских мальчиков и девочек и сектора образования.
Более подробная информация:
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The inaugural ‘SAF Shorts’ presents architecture as a storyteller and the narratives of the city. Screened in a newly opened public space yet to be announced, this signature evening event of the Sydney Architecture Festival brings a curated selection of local and international short films, documentaries and animations based on urbanity, architecture, the city and the people who inhabit it.
SAF Shorts is an opportunity for design enthusiasts, designers, city lovers, architecture lovers and architects to be delighted, educated and provoked. Filmmakers will be invited to present their films to the audience and prizes will be awarded on the night by a panel of guest jurors.
Linea d’Ombra-Festival Culture Giovani is an international festival of cinema, literature,performing art and music.The event is divided in the following 4 sections:
Cinema
Videoart & web
Music
Performing art
Events and performances of these sections will be chosen directly by the artistic direction in base of quality, consistency with the project and the theme of the event, which is chosen year by year.
The Festival of shortfilms " Short Stories "10 , to be held at the House of Culture of Merlo , in October , aims to generate a space for exchange and sharing , promoting creativity , originality and the use of audiovisual media as a vehicle for artistic expression.
