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

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SCREENPLAY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Sponsored by www.InkTip.com

For Immediate Release: October 28, 2003

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

(Don't miss the 10 Year Anniversary Ohio Independent Film Festival 
November 1-9, 2003)

Independent Pictures (IP) is proud to announce the three award-
winning screenplays for the 2003 Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards, 
IP's seventh annual script competition. This marks the second
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: THE SHANGRI-LA CAFE by 
Lily Mariye. The Takashi family owns a restaurant in 1959 Las Vegas 
and are forced to adopt a "whites only" policy during a time
when blacks cannot eat in "whites only" establishments and many
Japanese Americans to pretend to be Chinese to avoid post WWII racism.

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: THE BOARDER 
by Jane E. Ryan. A loving, unprepared couple adopts a slick, street 
kid who is not what he seems-he terrorizes his mother and totally 
buffaloes his father.
 
Finally, the Best Screenplay Award goes to the most overall well-
written and crafted story. Winner of the Best Screenplay: THREE MILE 
FAMILY by Spiro Skentzos. During the 1979 Three-Mile Island nuclear 
meltdown, a daughter and son each explore their sexuality, leaving 
their immigrant tyrannical father and sexually repressed mother to 
realize they have lost control over them.
 
Many thanks to IP's team of over seventy readers and three film 
industry judges: Jane Alsobrook (film producer; currently the 
American feature HOUSE OF JOY and the international feature EVA 
LUNA), TC Rice (Senior Executive Vice President of Distribution for 
Manhattan Pictures International), and Dawn Wolfrom (film producer; 
her latest was Focus Features release NEVER AGAIN, she's
currently developing a feature with Marc Platt-LEGALLY BLONDE-and 
Universal).
 
Independent Pictures a is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization 
established in 1993. IP is the proud sponsor of the Ohio Independent 
Film Festival, Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards, Film Production 
Training Program, regional AIVF Salons, Fiscal Agent Sponsorship 
Program, Speakers Bureau, annual Director of Photography Workshop,
and a variety of curatorial programs.

INDEPENDENT PICTURES' SPONSORS: Association of Independent Video &
Filmmakers, Audio Visual Rentals, Cleveland Cardiovascular Research 
Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland 
Public Theatre, Community Shares of Greater Cleveland, Convention & 
Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland Inc., Filmmaker Magazine, The 
George Gund Foundation, Hampton Inn, www.InkTip.com, Marriott 
Residence Inn, Media Design Imaging, Miller Beer, Northern Ohio Live, 
The Offset Theory, Ohio Arts Council, Sherwin Williams, Steen 
Editorial, United Labor Agency, West Side Cardiology Associates, the 
Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment 
for the Humanities

Independent Pictures
1392 West 65th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
(216) 651-7315
(216) 651-7317 fax
OhioIndieFilmFest at juno.com
http://www.ohiofilms.com

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