EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 3 FOR FILMS AND SCREENPLAYS; ALSOBROOK, RICE,
WOLFROM, BIRNHAK TO JUDGE

For Immediate Release: July 1, 2002

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

Deadline to submit films and screenplays to the Ohio Independent Film
Festival extended to POSTMARKED BY JULY 3, 2002, visit
http://www.ohiofilms.com/ for detailed submission information. We
are honored to have film producers Jane Alsobrook, TC Rice, Dawn
Wolfrom, and Sandra Birnhak to judge the screenplay competition. In
addition to her producing work, Ms. Alsobrook has been a senior VP at
Columbia Pictures and the president of Australia's largest
independent film production and distribution company. Mr. Rice is VP
Distribution for Manhattan Pictures Intl., a distribution and
production company founded by Paul E. Cohen; he has also worked with
Stephen Baldwin's Next Millennium Entertainment and Stratosphere
Entertainment. In addition to her work producing films (recently
NEVER AGAIN to be released by USA Films July 13), Ms. Wolfrom has
also moved into television, having sold shows to Paramount with
Kelsey Grammer's company Gramnet. Ms. Birnhak is CEO of Worldview
Entertainment in addition to her award-winning work as a film and
television producer.

In keeping with our focus on supporting writers and filmmakers to
professional careers, winning screenplays receive promotion by
WritersScriptNetwork.com. Through their services, 65 writers have
either gained writing work or sold or optioned their scripts, 55
writers have gained representation and 18 shorts have been
sold/optioned; two recent successes include six-figure sales. Place
your script, subscribe to free newsletter, or find exactly the type
of script you're looking for with WritersScriptNetwork.com.

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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,
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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