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The Official Newsletter of the

BlueCat Screenplay Competition   


May 14th, 2014




THE OFFICIAL LOGLINES FOR
BLUECAT'S
WINNERS AND FINALISTS


FEATURE WINNER

3 FACES OF HUNGER AND THIRST
by HF Crum

The true story of the assassination of a revolutionary Mexican presidential candidate unfolds from the original standoff of three gunmen in Tijuana.

 



SHORT WINNER

WINGED
by Jennifer Cui

A young Chinese girl ventures outside her home to find a crowd gathered near a dead body, only to find something entirely different upon second glance.

 



JOPLIN AWARD

THE LONGEST BIRTHDAY
by Savion Einstein

When a clinical trial in Israel fails to treat her young son's cancer, a single mother takes him back home to Los Angeles to celebrate one more time.

 



CORDELIA AWARD

FACE TO FACE
by Jason Pittock

A cosmetic surgeon's life starts to unpick at the seams after he accidentally ruins the face of a celebrity client.

 



FEATURE FINALISTS

THE HISTORY OF MAGIC
by Jose Luis Gonzalez, Michael Tracy, Jon C. Holt

A degenerated traveling Mexican magician and his teenage niece find themselves on the same path of life as he approaches her home in a Texas border town.  

 


HAMBONE
by Kateland Brown

Set against the illegal dogfighting scene in Los Angeles, a gangbanger sentenced to community service at an animal shelter forms a bond with an abused pit bill scheduled to be euthanized. 

 


CHICAGO SHUFFLE
by Dennis Capps

A mild-mannered Prohibition-era accountant has a chance meeting with the twin brother he never knew he had, a brash Chicago gangster, but when he wakes up trapped in his brother's identity, he's forced to find himself as he fights to return to his old life. 

 


BAD HOUSE
  by Doug Mallette

Hoping for a fresh start, a desperate father moves his estranged wife and kids into a mysterious new house, where he soon discovers the horror of the perfect family.

 



SHORT FINALISTS

WAABOOZ
by Wenonah Wilms

A young Native American comic book fan faces his life and fear of dancing with the help of his superhero alter ego.

 


WOLFIE
by Athenia Paris Mekarnia

A Muslim man finds a strange woman when he travels to a remote mountain in search of a wolf he encountered as a child.

 


THE TWELVE PLAGUES
by Jeremy Lerman

A Jewish painter travels to receive a prestigious award, coming head to head with his wife's new boyfriend, Torah-thumping art patrons, and a slutty parapalegic. 

 




BlueCat Screenwriting Workshops
 
Preston Sturgess
BlueCat Screenplay Workshops are an 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.

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy Hoffman has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, as well as led workshops all over North America, Poland, Australia, New Zealand 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, DC, and the George Eastman House Film Festival, as well as a judge for the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowships in Minnesota. Gordy Hoffman founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 1998 and remains its judge.

  

THE FULL SCRIPT WORKSHOP

Participants read all screenplays in advance of the workshop. 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.

  

Each writer will leave with a great sense of what they can do specifically to improve their screenplay, as well as a better awareness of where they might properly develop as a professional screenwriter as a whole. Writers benefit from the direct focus placed on their screenplays by the workshop, along with the analysis of the other scripts.

  

Screenplays can be first drafts or rewrites, incomplete or partial, with first time writers and veterans all welcome. Scripts are due 10-14 days prior to the date of the workshop.

  

Note: Screenplays submitted to the workshop are not eligible to be entered into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition.

  

  

Regular Registration Option

Do you want to participate, but do not have a script to submit at this time? Regular registration for the workshop allows you to attend without submitting written material, read the scripts in advance and still participate in the discussion.


UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:


San Francisco - May 17th - REGISTER
 
Online -
June 19th -
REGISTER  

Los Angeles
- June 29th
- REGISTER 
 
Portland - July 31st - REGISTER
 
Please let us know you'd like
the BlueCat Workshop
to come to your town!

See you soon.  
 
  

 

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