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BlueCat Screenplay Competition   


May 21, 2014





 

We're proud to announce

The 2015 BlueCat 

Screenplay Competition!

 

Every year, BlueCat provides a community for the unknown screenwriter to develop their work, giving undiscovered talent a path to professional success. 

 

Long a BlueCat tradition, every screenplay will receive one written analysis, 

with our best screenplays receiving 

over $40,000 in cash prizes.

 

We look forward to working with you!

 

 

SUBMIT YOUR SCREENPLAY

 

 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

 

Movie Title Contest 

Three Winners: $250 each

All screenplays entered by August 1 are eligible

 

 

Recent achievements by BlueCat Alumni:
  • Aaron Guzikowski's #1 Film "Prisoners," starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Melissa Leo, was released in September 2013. He is also the creator of "The Red Road," a Sundance Channel original series.
  • 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.
  • Ana Lily Amipour's debut feature, "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night", premiered at 2014 Sundance. 
  • Ashleigh Powell sold her script, "SomaCell," to Warner Brothers, with David Goyer attached to produce.

 For full competition details, please visit the Rules & Guidelines and FAQ.

 




BlueCat Screenwriting Workshops
 
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:

June Online - June 19th - REGISTER

Los Angeles - June 29th 
REGISTER

Brooklyn - July 19th - REGISTER
 
Portland - July 31st - REGISTER
 
August Online - August 14th - REGISTER 

  

Los Angeles - September 14th- REGISTER   

 

Please let us know if 

 

you'd like the BlueCat Workshop 

 

 to come to your town!

 

See you soon.  

  


  

 

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