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The Reel East Texas Film Festival (RETFF) is an annual film event held at the historic Texan Theater in downtown Kilgore, Texas. Established in 2019, the festival focuses on independent films and offers competitive awards across multiple categories. [ 2 ]
The WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, founded in 1968, is an annual film festival held annually in April in Houston, Texas. [2] Notable festival alumni include John Lee Hancock, who wrote and directed the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side, as well as Steven Spielberg, Randal Kleiser, Ang Lee and David Winning.
The festival, also known as the Battle of Flowers, commemorates of the Battle of the Alamo, which took place in San Antonio, and the Battle of San Jacinto, which led to Texas' independence from Mexico in April 1836. Fiesta is the city's biggest festival, with an economic impact of $340 million for the city. [1]
Borderfest started in 1976 as a committee of the Hidalgo Chamber of Commerce to promote cultural, international and community spirit. The initial event was a small community festival lasting one day and drawing some 500 people. Today, the festival has grown. Annually the festival Donates $40,000 to $50,000 for local scholarships.
The Texas State Fair Football Showdown took place on the third weekend of the 2018 and 2019 fair and featured Southern and Texas Southern. [14] In 2020, the Southern versus Texas Southern game moved to Arlington, Texas. The State Fair of Texas is the only fair in the United States to include a full auto show, dating back to 1913. [15]
In 1994, the first festival screened a dozen films and awarded low-rider bikes to the best picture. 2009 official SAFILM poster by Rigoberto Luna That year, Fredrick Weiss, the founder of the Texas Music Coalition, encouraged Rocha to develop the festival into a more substantial event.
The Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Dallas, Texas.The 2025 edition will be held April 25-May 1, 2025. DIFF 2024 was held April 25-May 1, 2024.
Houston International Festival, also known as iFest, was a contemporary, multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural arts and music festival held annually in Houston, Texas. This North American festival takes place every April on 16 acres (65,000 m 2) in downtown Houston's parks and plazas. By city ordinance this annual 10-day event is Houston's ...