WorldFest 2007 Announces Competition Results
WorldFest 2007 has announced their Grand REMI Award winners: BEST THEATRICAL FEATURE to Sho Igarashi for Chosyu Five, Hi-Vision Eizo Co. Ltd., Japan; BEST FILM & VIDEO to Tom Nitsch for Athena - Rebirth of Grandeur, Tom Nitsch Images, Germany; BEST TV & CABLE PRODUCTION to Walter Hill for Broken Trail, AMC, USA; BEST NEW MEDIA, Prenatal Development and Pregnancy Education by EHD of Manchester, NH, USA; BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM & VIDEO to Mitchell Rose for The Event, Red Red Rose Pictures, USA; BEST SHORT SUBJECT to Ramzy Telley for Death in Vegas, Rodeo Circus Films, Houston, TX, USA; BEST TV COMMERCIAL to Deno Seder for Unscrupulous, Carvin Seder, USA; BEST STUDENT FILM to Cheol-Woo Park for Disconnected, KOREA; BEST MUSIC VIDEO to Khannu Samrat & Mehrunnisa Hassan for The Dance of Courtship, INDIA and BEST SCRIPT to Lyle Hatcher & Don Caron, for Different Drummers, USA.
Other top script award winners are:
TAKEN Action/Adventure PLATINUM Garey Riester
PEARLS OF CHINA Action/Adventure PLATINUM Reggie Garcia Littlejohn
EIGHTY-EIGHT FREQUENCIES Biographical PLATINUM Jeffrey Massie
GORGEOUS GEORGE Biographical PLATINUM Steve LaMontagne
PETER AND THE CHROME PLATED FISH Comedy PLATINUM Chris Swider
JOURNEY HOME Romantic Comedy PLATINUM Dan Roberts
THE CODE SWITCH Dramatic PLATINUM Anne MacIver
NANJING Historical PLATINUM Garey Riester
CAGE Horror/Thriller PLATINUM Philip Landa
PROJECT WIDEAWAKE EPISODE 1: THE SLEEPERS Teleplays PLATINUM Andrew Steven Harris
SHOOTING STARR Westerns PLATINUM Dave Pearce
SOMEWHERE DOWN THE ROAD Romance PLATINUM Carlos Sarmiento
HEAVEN IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE Dramatic Adaptation PLATINUM Dick Reed,mgr
ROXANNE, QUEEN OF PAIN Short Film GOLD R. Scott Murphy
There were more than 4,500 category entries in all film and video competitions, and around 15% of the entries won awards.
Updated: 05/03/2007
Additional Contest Info: Worldfest - Houston Int'l Film Festival
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!PORTAL TO HELL
In the beginning of the 1980's a teenage boy starts to experience paranormal activity in his home, from hallucinations to physical marks.
Squid Jiggers
Genre: Drama/Romance -Feature A young island woman spends three years struggling with the loss of her arm until her ex, responsible for her impairment, is released from prison, then she fights for her life.
Cafe Earth
In a future where interstellar travel has all the glamor of an interstate highway road trip to Nebraska, an optimistic single mom opens a greasy spoon cafe at a run down truck stop in space - Stuckey's meets Star Wars.
Schwinn Varsity
Summer 1977 - two 14-year old boys undertake an epic, two-day bicycle trek across a city on a dangerous quest for a legendary dumpster in a downtown alley packed with adult magazines.
FULL CONTACT
When Pro Football's most feared linebacker shatters the career of his best friend with a 'heart-stopping' hit, he's forced to battle his own guilt and the split-personality psychopath who drugged him up.
CONNECTING FLIGHT
A cutthroat tech entrepreneur must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
Curbside Service
A recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the Arizona desert on their way to a family holiday function.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A 14 year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter.
Howlingween 5: Trip Along
Fate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
A will leaves half of California to someone, if a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator can keep any of the heirs alive.