INDEPENDENT FILM CHANNEL PICK TO WORLD PREMIERE AT THE OHIO
INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
extraordinary films you wouldn't ordinarily see
our 15th festival in eight years

For Immediate Release: November 2, 2001

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

Cleveland-5 CARD STUD, whose buzz has already started on the
Independent Film Channel's ifilm@ifc, will make its world premiere
next week at the 2001 Ohio Independent Film Festival & Market on
Friday, November 9 at 9AM at Cleveland Public Theatre, 6415 Detroit
Road (admission $10).

5 CARD STUD chronicles weekly poker games and the buddies who play,
their state of arrested adolescence, and Aly, the woman who changes
everything. An American independent, 5 CARD STUD displays the
feature film talents of some of television's best and brightest:
director Hank Saroyan (Jim Henson's Muppet Babies), writer/executive
producer Lawrence H. Toffler (Pacific Blue), and Khrystyne Haje (Head
of the Class, Step Sister from Planet Weird) as Aly.

Call (216) 651-7315, email OhioIndieFilmFest@..., or visit
www.ohiofilms.com for hotel information and schedule details for the
2001 Ohio Independent Film Festival & Market, November 3-11. Visit
www.ticketweb.com for directions and tickets in advance. Attend the
festival for the details on after-festival parties Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights.

PRINT MEDIA SPONSOR: Cleveland Scene SPONSORS: The George Gund
Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, Hankins
Foundation, IFC/Bravo, Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers,
Media Design Imaging, Filmmaker Magazine, Cleveland Public Theatre,
90.3FM WCPN, Sherwin-Williams, The Offset Theory, Marriott's
Residence Inn, Great Lakes Brewing Company
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