World Fest – Houston International Film Festival
Founded: 1961
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Houston, Texas each April. The award given at Worldfest-Houston is called the Remy. The Remy Award is named after artist/illustrator Frederick Remington.
Categories:
Short and feature-length (fiction, documentary, experimental)
Student films
Music videos
Screenplays
New Media, Television, Commercial and Business Film
WorldFest-Houston has 10 main competition categories and over 200 subcategories.
A Grand Remy is awarded to the top winner in each of the main competition categories.
Each competition category has several subcategories. Each subcategory is awarded the following:
Special Jury Prize
Platinum Remy
Gold Remy
Silver Remy
Bronze Remy
Each entry is independently judged by multiple jury members on a 100-point scale. Only the films with the highest scores win a Remy. Awards are determined by a score bracket:
A+ (95–100): Special Jury Prize
A (90–94): Platinum Remy
A- (85–89): Gold Remy
B+ (80–84): Silver Remy
B (75–79): Bronze Remy
Only films with a score of 75 or higher receive an award.
