[NEohioPAL][OIFF-News] SEMI-FINALISTS CONGRATULATED FOR OHIO INDEPENDENT SCREENPLAY AWARDS

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SEMI-FINALISTS CONGRATULATED FOR THE OHIO INDEPENDENT SCREENPLAY=20
AWARDS
For Immediate Release: September 21, 2002

Contact: Annetta Marion or Bernadette Gillota, Co-Artistic and=20
Executive Directors, (216) 651-7315

CLEVELAND, OHIO =96 The longest running screenplay competition in
Ohio keeps growing with every year.  Our pool of submissions has been=20
slowly whittled down to 25 semi-finalists; the finalists will be=20
announced next week.=20

Sponsored by Independent Pictures (IP) as part of the Ohio=20
Independent Film Festival, over 70 readers across three states took=20
part in reading and judging the preliminary round of entries.  New to=20
the Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards last year, entrants may=20
receive feedback from reader evaluations as a way to improve their=20
work.

The next step is screenplay scrutiny of the finalists (which will be=20
announced next week) from our panel of industry professionals; film=20
producers Jane Alsobrook, TC Rice, Dawn Wolfrom, and Sandra Birnhak.

In addition to her producing work, Ms. Alsobrook has been a senior VP=20
at Columbia Pictures and the president of Australia's largest=20
independent film production and distribution company.  Mr. Rice is VP=20
Distribution for Manhattan Pictures Intl., a distribution and=20
production company founded by Paul E. Cohen; he has also worked with=20
Stephen Baldwin's Next Millennium Entertainment and Stratosphere=20
Entertainment.  In addition to her work producing films (recently=20
NEVER AGAIN released by USA Films this past July), Ms. Wolfrom has=20
also moved into television, having sold shows to Paramount with=20
Kelsey Grammer's company Gramnet.  Ms. Birnhak is CEO of Worldview=20
Entertainment in addition to her award-winning work as a film and=20
television producer.

As part of the 2002 Ohio Independent Film Festival this November 2-
10, a winning screenwriter's work will feature at Script Mill,
IP's professionally directed and acted unstaged screenplay
reading=20
program.

True to Independent Pictures' form as supporters of local film
and video artists, there is also a category for best screenplay for a=20
story set mainly in the Northeastern Ohio region.=20

The list of the finalists is as follows:

Bullet with Butterfly Wings	Bill Balas
Norikaeru			Tom Slattery
Running for you, David		Chris Bunsey
Her Majesty's Magician		David Pinzino
Lifted				Elizabeth Nelson
Coach Mom			Sharon Felder Roth
Waters of the Heart		Merle Goldberg & William Gerald Hamby
Iron Princes			Patrick Ryan
All Rise			Tommy Bryant
Inugami				Rich Figel
A Crazy Situation		Chryshallis N. Brooks
Fugitive Slave			Dick Croy & Henry Burke
Amazon Tails			Camille Cruse
Woman of the Open Hand		Jacqueline Frazier
Diamond Event			Julie Williams
Benevolence			Carla Robinson
Mad Money			William Reid
Of Dreams & Destinies		Christy Paxton
The Sun in Your Eyes		Kirk Lindsey & Michael Lind
Quo Vadis, Sean?		Ethan Mayer Smith
10 Minutes From Paradise	Janyce Lapore
The Clear Horizon		Bill Flannigan
Five Full Moons			Mary Joy McMachen
Zaytoun				Nader Rizq
Treasure Recovered		Jesse van der Schaaf

OISA honorable mentions include:

The Prom From Hell		Devi Snively
A Crack in Time	                Carol Strickland
Einstein's Soup			Glen Merzer
Elvis is Dead			James B. Sweeney
Mute Swan			Beth-Anne Blue
The Sleaze			Adrianne Ambrose
Under the Lights		Douglas Stark
Lemon Tea			Marcia L. Sinclair
Nicolo Paganini			George Borelli
Stomping Embers, Releasing Butterflies
And Unmasking family Secrets	Lora L. Hyler

Independent Pictures supports emerging media artists and the=20
exhibition of their films and video projects to a wider audience=20
through the Ohio Independent Film Festival and other programs such as=20
the Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards, Script Mill, film training=20
programs, and workshops.

SUPPORTERS: The George Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation,=20
Ohio Arts Council, Writers Guild of America East, Sherwin Williams,=20
IBM, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Filmmaker=20
Magazine, Media Design Imaging, TVWriter.com, Hollywood.com Indie=20
Films, FilmStew.com, WritersScriptNetwork.com, WriteSafe.com, Final=20
Draft, Scr(i)pt Magazine, Cleveland Public Theatre.

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