[NEohioPAL][OIFF-News] SCREENPLAY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

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SCREENPLAY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
For Immediate Release: October 7, 2002

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

Independent Pictures is proud to announce the three award-winning 
screenplays for this year's Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards,
our sixth annual script competition.  This marks the first year for 
the organization's Best Voice of Color Award, which highlights the 
writing achievements from a screenwriter whose voice, story and 
characters speak to generally marginalized audiences.

Winner of the Best Voice of Color Screenplay: INUGAMI by Rich Figel.  
A private eye must stop an evil creature from making him it's
next victim, as foretold by a Japanese fortune teller-who was found 
mauled to death after the skeptical P.I. turned down her plea for 
help.

A favorite for screenplay submitters and judges alike, the Best 
Northcoast Screenplay Award focuses on stories that are set in 
Northern Ohio.  Winner of the Best Northcoast Screenplay: HER 
MAJESTY'S MAGICIAN by David Pinzino.  Nathan is a 12 year-old 
magician whose schizophrenic mother believes she is queen of an 
imaginary onion patch in their backyard.  When Nathan's grandpa
dies, the struggle begins for Nathan and his mother to stay together.

Finally, the Best Screenplay Award goes to the most overall well-
written and crafted story.  Winner of the Best Screenplay: 10 MINUTES 
FROM PARADISE by Janyce Lapore.  Three Small time hustlers living in 
New York City live a desperate existence until the leader of the 
group offers them a glimmer of hope when he devises a plan to rob the 
Long Island Commuter Train. 

Based on the its dialogue over description nature, HER MAJESTY'S 
MAGICIAN by David Pinzino has been chosen to receive the professional 
treatment at Script Mill, Independent Pictures' annual unstaged 
reading event.  Similar screenplay readings are commonplace in Los 
Angeles and New York, and first brought to Northeast Ohio by the Ohio 
Independent Film Festival.

Many thanks to our team of over sixty readers and four film industry 
judges: Jane Alsobrook (Independent film producer; most recently 
Executive Producer on working title THE BROTHEL with Ira Deutchman), 
Sandra Birnhak (New York City based television and film producer, and 
current owner of the Killiam Collection), TC Rice (Vice President of 
Distribution for Manhattan Pictures International), and Dawn Wolfrom 
(Independent film and television producer; recently on Eric 
Schaeffer's USA Films release NEVER AGAIN).

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

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

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