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What's New, BlueCat? The Official Newsletter of the
Bluecat Screenplay Competition
July 29th, 2012
BlueCat Short Screenplay Competition Finalists Announced! New Workshops in Vancouver, Austin, Orlando, New York...... |
BLUECAT SHORT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
Grand prize: $2000
Two Finalists: $500 each
We received a total of 435 submissions to our Short Screenplay Competition held in the Spring.
In The Silence by Kristi L. Simkins
Trumpet by Ben Cleary
Wort Irkington's Hate Books by Annaliese Ciel Walker
The Winner will be announced August 1st, 2012 and will win $2000, with the two remaining Finalists winning $500 each. Congrats!!
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An award-winning screenwriter, Gordy Hoffman founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 1998, having since presided over the evaluation and adjudication of over 10,000 screenplays. This unique combination of writer and reader of screenplays has allowed Gordy to develop and evolve a keen eye and feel for how a screenplay works successfully, and the intuitive, personal ways to address the problems of a screenplay through a writer's approach.
Gordy's first screenplay, a black comedy about the underground donor organ market, remains unfinished. His second screenplay, LOVE LIZA, directed by Todd Louiso and starring his brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. In 2001, Gordy was chosen for Fox Searchlab, a director development program at Fox Searchlight, where he wrote and directed three digital shorts, THE WOMAN WHO STOPPED SEEING MOVIES, JACK SIGNS and UNTITLED. Gordy made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival. A COAT OF SNOW screened at the Milan Film Festival, made its North American Premiere at the Arclight in Hollywood, and won the Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York. Gordy has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, as well as led workshops all over North America, Poland and the UK. He has served as a panelist for the IFP Script to Screen Conference in NYC, Women in Film's Script DC Conference in Washington, D.C., the George Eastman House Film Festival, as well as a judge for the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowships in Minnesota. A proud Jayhawk, he sits on the Professional Advisory Board of the Film and Media Studies Department at his alma mater, the University of Kansas. Gordy Hoffman founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 1998 and remains its judge. He's recently completed a script about Christmas Shopping, and he's now working on a project for Abigail Spencer.
What is the Full Script Workshop?
Participants read seven screenplays in advance of the workshop. Screenplays can be first drafts or rewrites, with first time writers and veterans all welcome. During the workshop, Gordy provides direct and in-depth feedback on each screenplay, with everyone encouraged to contribute his or her own thoughts and concerns. Gordy provides brief written notes to each writer after the workshop.
Do you want to participate, but do not have a script to submit at this time? You can audit the workshop, which allows you to attend without submitting written material, read the scripts in advance and still participate in the discussion.
Our New Zealand and Australia Tour Inspired by our recent Joplin Award Winner (Best International Script outside UK, Canada and USA), BlueCat is traveling down under to lead a few workshops and have a staged reading of our Joplin winner in Wellington, NZ.
US SUMMER / FALL SCHEDULE
September Online Workshop
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers) SCRIPTS DUE: September 6, midnight PST COMMENTS RELEASED: September 23rd, 6:00 PM PST FOLLOWUP QUESTIONS DUE: September 30th, 6:00 PM PST FOLLOWUP ANSWERS RELEASED: October 3rd, 6:00 PM PST
Full Registration: $165 Audit: $40 Register NowPhoenix
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)Full Registration $225 Register Now
New Orleans
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)Full Registration $225
Register Now
Orlando
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)Full Registration $225
Full Script Workshop (Limit 4 writers SOLD OUT)
Full Script Workshop (Limit 4 writers)
Full Registration $175
Wichita
First Ten Pages Workshop (Limit 10 writers)Sunday October 21st, 8:00AM-5:00PM Full Registration $115 TFA Member $85
Los Angeles
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)Saturday November 3rd, 9:00AM-6:00PM Regular Registration $45 Full Registration $175
San Francisco
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)Sunday, November 10th, 9:00AM-6:00PM Regular Registration $45 Full Registration $195
Register Now
Kansas City
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)Sunday, November 18th, 9:00AM-6:00PM Regular $45 Full $195
Vancouver
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers)
Saturday, December 1st, 9:00AM-6:00PM
Regular $45
New York
Full Script Workshop (Limit 7 writers) Saturday, December 15th, 9:00AM-6:00PM Regular $45 Full $245 Alumni $215
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