SCREENPLAY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Sponsored by www.InkTip.com

For Immediate Release: October 28, 2003

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

(Don't miss the 10 Year Anniversary Ohio Independent Film Festival
November 1-9, 2003)

Independent Pictures (IP) is proud to announce the three award-
winning screenplays for the 2003 Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards,
IP's seventh annual script competition. This marks the second
year for the organization's Best Voice of Color Award, which
highlights the writing achievements from a screenwriter whose voice,
story and characters speak to generally marginalized audiences.

Winner of the Best Voice of Color Screenplay: THE SHANGRI-LA CAFE by
Lily Mariye. The Takashi family owns a restaurant in 1959 Las Vegas
and are forced to adopt a "whites only" policy during a time
when blacks cannot eat in "whites only" establishments and many
Japanese Americans to pretend to be Chinese to avoid post WWII racism.

A favorite for screenplay submitters and judges alike, the Best
Northcoast Screenplay Award focuses on stories that are set in
Northern Ohio. Winner of the Best Northcoast Screenplay: THE BOARDER
by Jane E. Ryan. A loving, unprepared couple adopts a slick, street
kid who is not what he seems-he terrorizes his mother and totally
buffaloes his father.

Finally, the Best Screenplay Award goes to the most overall well-
written and crafted story. Winner of the Best Screenplay: THREE MILE
FAMILY by Spiro Skentzos. During the 1979 Three-Mile Island nuclear
meltdown, a daughter and son each explore their sexuality, leaving
their immigrant tyrannical father and sexually repressed mother to
realize they have lost control over them.

Many thanks to IP's team of over seventy readers and three film
industry judges: Jane Alsobrook (film producer; currently the
American feature HOUSE OF JOY and the international feature EVA
LUNA), TC Rice (Senior Executive Vice President of Distribution for
Manhattan Pictures International), and Dawn Wolfrom (film producer;
her latest was Focus Features release NEVER AGAIN, she's
currently developing a feature with Marc Platt-LEGALLY BLONDE-and
Universal).

Independent Pictures a 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.

INDEPENDENT PICTURES' SPONSORS: Association of Independent Video &
Filmmakers, Audio Visual Rentals, Cleveland Cardiovascular Research
Foundation, 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, Miller Beer, Northern Ohio Live,
The Offset Theory, Ohio Arts Council, Sherwin Williams, Steen
Editorial, United Labor Agency, West Side Cardiology Associates, the
Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment
for the Humanities

Independent Pictures
1392 West 65th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
(216) 651-7315
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