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
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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.Eligibility
Open to anyone.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
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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
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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
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.
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.
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
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