CONGRATULATIONS TO FESTIVAL AWARDS NOMINEES

For Immediate Release: February 6, 2002

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

Congratulations to the nominees for our 6th Annual Off-Hollywood
Oscarz, awarded to the winning films from the 2001 Ohio Independent
Film Festival & Market. The 2001 audience chose the nominees from
all films presented. The winning film in each of our five categories
will be determined by a jury and announced this spring. The five
categories comprising the 6th Annual Off-Hollywood Oscarz and their
accompanying nominees are as follows:

BEST FEATURE FILM
"After April" by Brian Evans
"5 Card Stud" by Hank Soroyan
"Jingle Hell" by Willy Tully & Carter McGowan
"Ignorance and Absence of Gerard" by Preston DeFrancis

BEST SHORT FILM
"Return to Sender" by Helen Kaplan
"Ornaments" by Aaron Ermiz
"My Neighbor the Freak" by Reid Waterer
"Jack and Diane" by Wendy Wilkins
"Michels Plague" by Laurence Walsh
"Dodgeball" by Donald Bull

BEST DRAMA
"Mikael at 13" by Isaac Eddy
"Speak" by Jonathan Scarfe & Suki Kaiser
"Caught in Time" by Abigail Zealey Bess
"Solve for X" by John Whitney
"The Book and the Rose" by Jeff Bemiss
"Her Closet" by Ami Sanderson

BEST COMEDY
"Lunch" by Matthew Ehlers
"All Amateur Ecstasy" by Greg Pak
"Tokyo Breakfast" by Mike Maguire & Tom Kuntz
"Shut Up America" by Sheldon Gleisser
"A Soap Opera" by Devi Snively
"The Big Night" by Rob Lucas

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
"Clip" by Robert Todd
"Stripmall Trilogy" by Roger Beebe
"Shanti" by Rohan Sen
"Festism" by Matthew T.
"Jaded" by Robert Banks
"Outlet" by Robert Banks

Deadlines to submit films and videos to the 2002 Ohio Independent
Film Festival & Market are: JUNE 1; JULY 1 (late). Please call (216)
651-7315, email OhioIndieFilmFest@..., or visit
www.ohiofilms.com for film and video entry information.

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