Our 2014 Movie Title Semi-Finalists!

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August 23, 2013

2014 Title Contest
Semi-Finalists

Every year, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition holds a Title Contest for all of our early submissions.

All entries submitted by August 1st were eligible.

We sent ballots to all current entrants to vote for the Semi-Finalists, which are listed below.

Please visit our Facebook Page
to vote on what titles should advance!

The Top 3 Winners will receive $250 each.

Congratulations to our Semi-Finalists, and thanks to everyone who submitted.

Good Luck!

SEMI-FINALISTS

A Love So Loud	by	Heather Ferrell
A Second Last Breath	by	Amanda Creiglow
American Buddha	by	Andrew Quinn
Asshole by Choice	by	Anil Gonnabathula
Backstabbing Betty	by	Kimberley Sutton
Blind and Dangerous	by	Leon Tidwell
Bury 'Em Deep	by	Stephen L. Stafford
BUTT	by	Josh Bassett
Children of the Sky	by	Jamie Duneier
Coney Island Whitefish	by	Bart Teracino & Dan Spellacy
Conquistador	by	Liam Goulding
Dating Picasso	by	Nicole Barrett
Drinking In Church	by	Kieran Angelini
Drunken Rat Bastards	by	Luis Cordoba
Fat Year	by	Marcy Jarreau and Jessica Stickles
Fountain of Ruth	by	Dante Savoy Love
From Somewhere	by	Tim Shaw
Guns and Butter	by	Adam Vander Schaaf
He Was a Teenage Sex Demon!	by	Scott Mooney
Hush The Moon Is Sleeping	by	John Preuss
If The Trees Could Talk	by	Michael Weinstein
In Between the Shades of Truth	by	Delilah Karenina Gámez
Killing Dolph Lundgren	by	Billy Good and Adam Kowal
Lies To Get Laid By	by	Torkjell Stromme
Motor City Burning	by	Sean O'Reilly
My Purple Bicycle of Insanity	by	Curtis Torchia
Nobody In My Family Has Sex	by	Carol C. Farrand
Once, Before I Knew You	by	David Anthony
Pretty Ugly Things	by	Kate Maracle
Requiem for a Beauty Queen	by	Wayne Coughlin
Rolling Dark	by	Paul J. Williams
Southern Discomfort	by	Matt Torina
Strange Dick	by	Matthew Kennedy
Superheroine and Her Father	by	Terezia Kontova
Take Your Grandma to Work Day	by	David Ngo
The Devil's Jokebook	by	Phil Clarke Jr.
The Graveyard Girl	by	Jamie Michael Perrington
The Incredible Frog Boy Is On the Loose Again!	by	Zach Jansen
The Postman's Letter	by	Ellen Johnson
The Sunny Side of Down	by	Luke Nuto
The Zombie Psychic	by	Gary Phillips
There is a trampoline at the bottom of the well	by	Dejan Stankovic
Tina Fey is My Friend	by	Melissa Kong
Turn Your Head And Cough	by	Barry Kelly
Unplugging Aunt Vera	by	Angela Page
Walking Cities	by	Anna Abrashina
Winning Isn't Anything	by	Rich Ehrenreich
Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mon	by	Debra Ehrhardt
You Don't Know Dick	by	Christine Lucas
Zen and the Supermarket Sample Lady	by	Scott Burton

2014 Call for Entries
We are now open for submissions!

Official Call for Entries
Next Deadline: Thursday, September 1, 2013
Entry Fee: ($60 Features, $40 Shorts)

All entry fees increase after September 1.

This year, BlueCat establishes one of the largest cash prizes in the world for a Short Screenplay, with a Grand prize of $10,000, along with an increase in our Feature prize to $15,000.

Students will be eligible to submit their short screenplay at a discounted rate of $29 for the duration of the competition.

Each Short Screenplay submission will receive one written analysis, while each Feature Screenplay entry will receive two.

All submissions will be eligible for a Resubmission entry if received by the October 15th deadline.

Best Feature Screenplay

$15,000 Grand Prize

Four Finalists

$2,500 Prize

Best Short Screenplay

$10,000 Grand Prize

Three Finalists

$1,500 Prize

The Cordelia Award

Best Feature Screenplay from the UK

$1,500 Prize

The Joplin Award

Best Feature Screenplay from outside the USA, Canada or the UK

$1,500 Prize

SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY

Recent achievements by BlueCat Alumni include:

Young Il Kim's script, RODHAM, a 2012 Blacklist Script, recently attached director James Ponsoldt (THE SPECTACULAR NOW). Young recently won the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant from Sundance, where he will write a biopic on Stephen Hawking.

Elijah Wood produced Ana Lily Amipour's A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, set for release in late 2013.

Aaron Guzikowski's PRISONERS, starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Melissa Leo, will be released September 2013. The Sundance Channel recently bought Aaron's TV pilot, THE DESCENDANTS, making it their second scripted show after RECTIFY.

Ashleigh Powell sold her script, SOMACELL, to Warner Brothers, with David Goyer attached to produce.

SOMACELL, along with RODHAM, were two 2012 Blacklist Scripts written by BlueCat Alumni.

BlueCat Workshops

BlueCat Screenplay Workshops are a one-day, intensive opportunity to certifiably improve your script in a small group environment, led by award winning screenwriter and BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman.

Your script will be read in advance both by Gordy as well as the other workshop participants; everyone receives in-depth feedback on their script from a number of different perspectives.

2013 Workshop Calendar

Omaha - Sept 5th

Online Workshop - Sept 26th

Los Angeles - October 26th

Austin - October 30th

Austin - November 3rd

Los Angeles - November 23rd