San Mateo, CA, April 22, 2011 –(PR.com)– Romanian Adoptee finds his voice with film.
The independent film “Born To Be Our Children, Romanian Adoption Stories” has won a Gold Remi at the 44th Worldfest, International Film Festival. Worldfest was held in Houston from April 8th to April 17th. Alex King attended the awards dinner on Saturday April 16th where he was awarded the Gold in the Feature Documentary Filming and Editing category. Just last month, the documentary had its theatre debut on March 26th at the Laemmle Theatre in Beverly Hills California at another film festival, L.A. Film + Music Weekend.
The Houston Worldfest (www.worldfest.org) is the third oldest competitive International film festival in North American, and the oldest independent Film And Video Festival in the World. It is also one of the largest film festivals. In 2010, they received more than 4,500 category entries from 37 countries. This is the film festival that discovered Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, Randal Kleiser, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee to name a few. Randal Kleiser was honored at this years film festival. He is the director of of films such as “Grease,” “Honey I shrunk the kids,” and “Blue Lagoon.” (www.worldfest.org under History or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldFest-Houston_International_Film_Festival)
“I am so excited about having won the Gold Remi at the Houston Worldfest,” says Alex King, the twenty-two year old filmmaker from California. “I love to film. I had some struggles with school, and bullying, but I kept looking for my passion in life. Then I tried filming and editing. I want to make a difference in the world, I think that can be done with film.”
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