Festival Overview
The purpose of the West Texas Film Festival is to screen diverse films from both directors and producers that would not normally be featured in West Texas as well as regional media makers. We seek short films, documentaries, features, animation and student films as well as screenplays from all over the world that have the pioneer spirit of filmmaking. We are a registered nonprofit organization in the State of Texas.
History
The festival was started by a grant in 2016 from Odessa Arts. The Education Day brings in over 100 high school students in the Permian Basin for workshops on acting, screenwriting, directing and producing. This is the fourth year of the festival.
The 2019 WTXFF will feature the following showcases:
Opening Night Gala (Nov 21st)
Education Day (Nov 22nd)
Football Films (Nov 22nd)
WorldView (November 23rd)
Awards Ceremony (November 23rd)
If you have films about football, Texas or international films with English subtitles, please submit them.
Please do not contact us about fee waivers. We are a small, grant funded festival that relies on submission fees.
Awards
Best Feature Film | Best Short Film | Best Documentary Film | Best Student Film |Best TV Pilot Script | Best Screenplay
All category winners will receive a 5 gallon Cowboy Hat Award.
Best Screenplay winner will receive the following prizes:
1. The Best Screenplay and Best TV Pilot winners of the 2019 West Texas Film Festival will receive an InkTip Script Listing to promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip’s entire network of producers, managers, and agents. Companies who are InkTip members include: ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many more. Producers have made more than 375 films from scripts and writers found through InkTip.
2. A free copy of Final Draft 10 screenwriting software