WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival

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WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
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Location Houston, TX, USA
FoundedApril 1968;55 years ago (1968-04)
Founded byHunter Todd [1]
AwardsRemi Award
Website worldfest.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, founded in 1968, is an annual film festival held annually in April in Houston, Texas. [2] Notable festival alumni include John Lee Hancock, who wrote and directed the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side, as well as Steven Spielberg, Randal Kleiser, Ang Lee and David Winning. [3]

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Competition categories

WorldFest bestows awards in 10 major film and video categories as well as 200+ sub-categories.[ citation needed ]

Awards

The award given at the Worldfest-Houston is called the Remi. The Remi Award is named after painter/illustrator Frederic Remington. [4]

One Grand Remi is awarded to the top winner in each of the major competition categories.

Within each competition category, there are multiple sub-categories. The following are awarded in each sub-categories:

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References

  1. Darling, Cary (2018-01-22). "WorldFest Houston film festival lands a new home". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  2. Lang, Katricia (2017-04-25). "WorldFest-Houston Celebrates 50 Years of the Best in Video, Film and Commercials". Houston Press. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  3. "After 50 Years, Houston's WorldFest Film Festival Continues to Launch Rising Hollywood Stars". Houstonia. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  4. "2015 Remi Winners - Worldfest-Houston". Worldfest-Houston. Retrieved 2020-04-11.