S. Korean TV program wins best documentary at WorldFest-Houston

April 20, 2016

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A KBS TV documentary series has won best documentary at this year’s WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, the national broadcaster said Wednesday.

“The Next Human.” a four-part series on the past and future of human evolution, won the Grand Prize in the TV documentary category on Saturday (local time), KBS said.

The series, aired on the KBS1 channel in September 2015, is one of the TV station’s 19 programs honored in the 49th edition of the festival held on April 8-17, it added.

WorldFest is the third competitive international film festival in North America after San Francisco and New York. It is also the oldest independent film and video festival in the world, according to its website.