The Chicago Screenwriters Network, a non-profit organization devoted to furthering the careers of Midwestern screenwriters, launches its first-ever screenwriting contest today.

“We’re very excited,” said Sonny Wareham, the group’s president.
“Since 1995, we’ve tried - through our monthly meetings, workshops and speakers - to get writers from the Midwest noticed by Hollywood. This contest is the natural evolution of things.”

Like other contests, The 2008 CSN Contest will offer cash prizes to the grand prize- winner and runners-up. “But that’s not the real gem,”
explained Wareham. “Through the various connections we have made, we are able to get the winning scripts in the hands of real Hollywood production companies and agents.”

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University of Notre Dame FTT Talks presents -The Storytellers: Documenting Reality

Featuring -Tom Bettag, Executive Producer of Nightline, The Koppel Group, and Discovery Networks - ND Class of 1965;

Gita Pullapilly, Documentary Film Producer, Dungby Productions - ND Class of 1999

Friday, October 31, 2008, at 7:30 pm
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

This presentation is an inside look of how expert storytelling shapes reality for TV and film. Tom Bettag shares behind the scenes insight from his longtime, award-winning partnership with Ted Koppel at ABC and Discovery. Gita Pullapilly presents a rough-cut screening of the documentary The Way We Get By. Inside a small airport in central Maine, a group of senior citizens are using handshakes and hugs to play a critical role in the Iraq war. The Way We Get By is an inspirational story about how these handshakes can change a person’s life.

This is a FREE but ticketed event. Call the Ticket Office at 574.631.2800 to reserve tickets.

Sponsored by - iNDustry Alliance: Presented by Notre Dame’s Media and Entertainment Alumni, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center performingarts.nd.edu ftt.nd.edu

FTT Talks presents Gary Cosay, Consultant, Founding Partner, and Board

Member of United Talent Agency

“The Business of Show Business”

5:00 P.M., Thursday, October 9, 2008

Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

This is a free but ticketed event

Call the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Ticket Office at (574)

631-2800 to reserve tickets

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CALL FOR FILMS AND VIDEOS - 2009 Ohio Independent Film Festival (OIFF)

Presented by Independent Pictures

For Immediate Release: September 24 , 2008

Contact: Bernadette Gillota, Artistic Director of Independent

Pictures, presenter of the OIFF, (216) 651-7315.

The Ohio Independent Film Festival is among the leading independent

film events in Ohio. The 2009 OIFF, In May 0f 2009 in Cleveland, Ohio,

will mark our 22nd festival in 15 years. Like many festivals, the

OIFF is a judged and internationally recognized line-up of first-class

independent films from around the world.

But here’s what is unique about the OIFF: it only accepts film and

video submissions *without* theatrical distribution and the festival

is programmed 100% from those submissions. Additionally, every film

and video entrant benefits from personal feedback from festival

programmers on his or her film.

So submit your films and videos! Deadlines to submit films and videos

for the 2009 OIFF are: February 1, 2009; March 1, 2009 (late). Please

call (216) 651-7315, email Ohiofilms@yahoo.com , for film and video

entry information. Or visit withoutabox.com to enter via their website.

Independent Pictures is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established

in 1993. IP is the proud presenter of the Ohio Independent Film

Festival, Film Production Training Program, Fiscal Agent Sponsorship

Program, Speakers Bureau, annual Director of Photography Workshop, and

a variety of other film programs.

INDEPENDENT PICTURES’ SPONSORS: Audio Visual Rentals,

Community Shares of Greater Cleveland, Ohio Arts Council, Sherwin

Williams.

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Independent Pictures

1392 West 65th Street

Cleveland, Ohio 44102

(216) 651-7315

Ohiofilms@yahoo.com