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!LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
Attachment In (Pilot)
An ancient being is summoned to fight an evil entity but first both have to attach within a human body at birth, grow up and navigate life before meeting in an epic battle where winner takes all.
Between The Flames
Wildfires are the least of her worries, when a college athlete lands a job on a Hotshot Crew in the 80's where she meets her best friend plus two love interests who want her for very different agendas during an intense drought year.
In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
PAPER TRAIL
When a young Army MP becomes a private investigator after he inherits his Grandfather’s storefront in a small town in the mountains of Colorado; his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new one he must forever keep from his fiancée.
THE AMAZING TOOTHBRUSH
A 11yr old boy receives a special toothbrush.
The Paper Route
On the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.