[NEohioPAL][OIFF-News] CLEVELAND’S OFFICIAL OSCAR NIGHT(R) PARTY TO BENEFIT OIFF

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CLEVELAND'S OFFICIAL OSCAR NIGHT(R) PARTY TO BENEFIT OIFF

For Immediate Release: January 29, 2004

Contact: Annetta Marion or Bernadette Gillota, Co-Founding Artistic 
Directors of Independent Pictures, presenter of the OIFF, (216) 651-
7315

Cleveland, Ohio-You don't have to live in Hollywood to experience
the magic and excitement of Oscar Night.  Residents of Cleveland can 
join in the festivities when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and 
Sciences stages its 76th Academy Awards(R) Presentation on Sunday, 
February 29, 2004, by attending Cleveland's own
Academy-sanctioned Oscar Night(R) America party.  The Cleveland party 
is one of 46 official parties that will be held across the country on 
Oscar Night.

Benefiting the Ohio Independent Film Festival, and hosted by 
filmmaker Robert C. Banks, Jr. and Donald C. Shingler, D.D.S. (who 
was just highlighted this past December in the Plain Dealer's
Sunday Magazine for his attention to worthy causes), the Cleveland 
Oscar Night celebration will be held, complete with spectacular views 
of Cleveland and Lake Erie, in the Tower at the Tower Press Building, 
1900 Superior Avenue, beginning at 7pm.  Tickets ($25) are now on 
sale by calling Nina Yancer at (440) 323-2032.  Call now to get 
tickets; space is limited and the event is expected to sell out.

The Cleveland audience will watch the Academy Awards telecast with 
support from WEWS, the Cleveland affiliate of the ABC Television 
Network, which broadcasts the Academy Awards.  ABC and the Academy 
are cooperating for the eleventh year with local charities for these 
official Oscar Night viewing parties.  This year marks the eighth 
year that the Cleveland party has been officially sanctioned by the 
Academy.

"Watching the Academy Awards Show is one of the great American 
traditions," says Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis. 
"Since the public can't come to Los Angeles to attend the
Awards Presentation, we created Oscar Night America, which allows 
these local parties to tie into the excitement of Oscar Night and to 
support some very worthy causes."  Official Oscar Night parties
last year raised over $1.7 million for local charities in 37 cities.  
All money raised stays in the community; none of it goes to the 
Academy.
	
The Academy will make available to party guests in Cleveland the same 
official program distributed to guests seated at the Kodak Theatre at 
Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, California.  Copies of the 76th 
Academy Awards commemorative poster, designed by Burton Morris, will 
also be available in Cleveland.  In addition, guests may feel like 
stars themselves, dressed in fashion-forward black tie optional 
attire, as they are entertained by WEWS-TV 5 News Anchor Tonya Strong 
and sustain themselves with wine and appetizers.

"Oscar Night generates excitement all over the world," says
host Donald C. Shingler.  "With the Academy's help, our guests
will feel like they are part of the A-list.  On Oscar Night there 
will be two places to be: Cleveland's Oscar Night America and the 
Academy Awards (themselves) in Los Angeles."

Independent Pictures 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.

DEADLINES TO SUBMIT FILMS, VIDEOS, AND SCREENPLAYS FOR 2004 ARE: JUNE 
1; JULY 1 (LATE).

INDEPENDENT PICTURES' SPONSORS: Association of Independent Video & 
Filmmakers, Audio Visual Rentals, 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, The 
Offset Theory, Ohio Arts Council, Sherwin Williams, Steen Editorial, 
United Labor Agency, the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate 
of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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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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