SCREENPLAY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Sponsored by www.InkTip.com

For Immediate Release: October 25, 2004

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

(Don't miss the 2004 Ohio Independent Film Festival, November 7-14, http://
www.ohiofilms.com/2004festival/index.html)

Independent Pictures (IP) is proud to announce the three award-winning
screenplays for
the 2004 Ohio Independent Screenplay Awards, IP's eighth annual script
competition. This
marks the third 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: RIVER STREET by Jacqueline
Elizabeth Pardue.
After a tragic fire decimates the family business, a husband and wife struggle
to give their
love another chance. The 1st runner up in this category is SOMEWHERE NOT HOME
by Kip
Knott.

A favorite both for screenplay submitters and Independent Pictures, the Best
Northcoast
Screenplay Award focuses on stories that are set in Northern Ohio. Winner of the
Best
Northcoast Screenplay: AURORA RUN by Tony Davies. A mystic thriller that
captures two
Cleveland eras. The 1930's Kingsbury Run Torso murders are happening again.
Eliot
Ness' modern counterpart has to defy history to unmask the past and present
killers in the
only case Ness never closed. The 1st runner up in this category is HALCYON DAYS
by
Daniel P. Moriarty.

Finally, the Best Screenplay Award goes to the most overall well-written and
crafted story.
Winner of the Best Screenplay: THE MOST BIGGEST SLEEPOVER EVER by Rick Fonte.
Instead
of a summer of US History, Tommy must hide in the Mall of America while he works
to
clear his father's name and plot revenge on the dirty cops who framed him. The
1st runner
up in this category is NOT HERE, YOU WON'T by Jack Kilpatrick.

Many thanks to IP's team of over seventy readers. Please join us at our 2004
Ohio
Independent Film Festival, November 7-14. All programs are presented at
Cleveland Public
Theatre, 6415 Detroit Road, and are $10/program unless otherwise noted. Surf
www.ohiofilms.com for hotel information and complete festival schedule. Visit
www.ticketweb.com for directions and sales. Attend the festival for details on
after-festival
parties Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.

Independent Pictures 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, The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland Public Theatre,
Community
Shares of Greater Cleveland, Filmmaker Magazine, The George Gund Foundation,
Hampton
Inn, www.InkTip.com, Marriott Residence Inn, Media Design Imaging, National
Endowment
for the Arts, The Offset Theory, Ohio Arts Council, Sherwin Williams.

Independent Pictures is a member of Greater Cleveland Community Shares.
Community
Shares supports 35 local nonprofits working for long-term, sustainable solutions
to build
a stronger Cleveland. Learn more about Community Shares and supporting social
justice
through workplace giving at www.communityshares.org.

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