NYC FILM MIXER MONDAY SEPTEMBER 30 WITH INDEPENDENT PICTURES
For Immediate Release: September 26, 2002

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

Independent Pictures, the premiere resource for independent
filmmakers in Northeast Ohio and presenter of the annual Ohio
Independent Film Festival, will host a New York film industry
networking party the week of the IFP Market, the first and longest
running market for American independent film.

The Independent Pictures mixer is located at Madame X (upstairs bar)
on 94 West Houston Street (just west of La Guardia Place/West
Broadway), Monday night, September 30th, from 9p-midnight. Co-
Artistic and Executive Directors Annetta Marion and Bernadette
Gillota will be on hand with information about the November film
festival and Independent Pictures' additional programs. The
usual Monday night Madame X DJ will provide music and entertainment.
There will be a cash bar.

Independent Pictures supports emerging media artists and the
exhibition of their films and video projects to a wider audience
through the Ohio Independent Film Festival and other programs such as
the Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards, Script Mill, film training
programs, and workshops.

SUPPORTERS: The George Gund Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation,
Ohio Arts Council, Writers Guild of America East, Sherwin Williams,
IBM, 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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