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Worldfest - Houston Int'l Film Festival

Worldfest - Houston

Contact

9898 Bissonnet St
Suite 650
Houston, TX 77036
(713) 557-5252 (voice)
(713) 965-9960 (fax)

Web:
www.worldfest.org
Email:
info@worldfest.org

Contact: Kathleen Haney, VP Operations

Report Card

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Signficance: 2 stars2 stars (2.2/5.0)
Report Cards: 17    
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Objective

Contest founded in 1988 to provide an opportunity to compete with talent from around the world. The 42nd Annual WorldFest offers Cash Awards, Special Screenplay Master Classes, significant mentoring and project development opportunities during the ten-day festival. More than 550 international filmmakers and writers attend each year. All Remi Nominees receive VIP Gold All Access Passes to the Festival and the Master Classes (A $800 value). Each festival finds new partnerships, options on scripts, development deals and new friends and contacts in the international film industry.

Deadline/Entry Fees

Expired. Previous Deadline: 01/31/2023

Rules

All entries must include a short synopsis for the jury. No limit to the number of entries. We now offer 13 different sub-categories for competition.

Awards

Industry recognition, statues, framed plaques, cash, and raw stock grants.

Worldfest - Houston

Contact

9898 Bissonnet St
Suite 650
Houston, TX 77036
(713) 557-5252 (voice)
(713) 965-9960 (fax)

Web:
www.worldfest.org
Email:
info@worldfest.org

Contact: Kathleen Haney, VP Operations

Report Card

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Signficance: 2 stars2 stars (2.2/5.0)
Report Cards: 17    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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Worldfest - Houston

Contact

9898 Bissonnet St
Suite 650
Houston, TX 77036
(713) 557-5252 (voice)
(713) 965-9960 (fax)

Web:
www.worldfest.org
Email:
info@worldfest.org

Contact: Kathleen Haney, VP Operations

Report Card

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Signficance: 2 stars2 stars (2.2/5.0)
Report Cards: 17    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

Contest News

MovieBytes Interview:
Screenwriter Allen Cody

An interview with screenwriter Allen Cody regarding the Worldfest - Houston Writing Competition.

Q: What's the title of the script you entered in this contest, and what's it about?

A: UNDER THE MANGO TREE - by Allen Cody Taube - won the Gold Award for Action/Adventure 2002.

A Cuban refugee boat sinks. A teenager treads water as her family drowns. She saves her little brother. He clings to her back as she swims to America where the danger begins..

112 pages action info@reefchief.com

Q: What made you enter this particular contest? Have you entered any other contests with this script? If so, how did you do?

A: Seemed like a good idea.

Yes, I entered Telluride Independent Film Festival and Key West Film Festival and won best screenplay in both of them. Have won a total of 9 screenplay competitions and film festivals in the past 2 years with 3 screenplays.

Q: Were you satisfied with the adminstration of the contest? Did they meet their deadlines? Did you receive all the awards that were promised?

A: Yes, very professional.

Q: Were you given any feedback on your script? If so, did you find the feedback helpful?

A: No feedback from this one.

Q: Has your success in this contest helped you market your script? Were you contacted by any agents, managers or producers?

A: My successes in contests and film festivals have brought interest to my writing from agents, producers, studios and directors.

Q: What's your background? Have you written any other screenplays or television scripts?

A: Written 5 spec features, optioned one, had two agents. Also two shorts and two stage plays.

Totally self taught. My day job is a schooner captain/owner of 65' charter schooner in Key West Florida. Have written illustrated and published books and magazine features.

Working on a 6th screenplay right now.

Q: Do you live in Los Angeles? If not, do you have any plans to move there?

A: I live in Key West Florida and might consider sailing to Los Angeles.

Q: What's next? Are you working on a new script?

A: Yes, a psych thriller called SKETCH ARTIST with co-writer Robin Bradford about a rape victim and a wildly creative artist.

Have a few more in the works.

Posted Sunday, December 14, 2003

Worldfest - Houston

Contact

9898 Bissonnet St
Suite 650
Houston, TX 77036
(713) 557-5252 (voice)
(713) 965-9960 (fax)

Web:
www.worldfest.org
Email:
info@worldfest.org

Contact: Kathleen Haney, VP Operations

Report Card

Overall: 3 stars3 stars3 stars (3.2/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Signficance: 2 stars2 stars (2.2/5.0)
Report Cards: 17    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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