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The Official Newsletter of the

BlueCat Screenplay Competition   


June 10, 2014

IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
  • Advice from BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman
  • 3 Scripts: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, HITCHCOCK, and ALI
  • 22 Jump Street co-writer/co-director Phil Lord on rewriting + creativity
  • Advice from screenwriter Julian Fellowes
  • Wes Anderson on The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Wisdom from writer/director Jane Campion
  • Alfred Hitchcock on evoking an emotional response from an audience
  • Workshop information
 

BLUECAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

SCRIPT ANALYSIS

 
Every screenplay receives one written analysis,
 

with our best screenplays receiving 

over $40,000 in cash prizes.

 

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition guarantees what every screenwriter expects when they enter a contest: independent readers reading their entire screenplay and writing analysis of it as a part of the entry fee.

 

 

 

 

Submit by June 15th and receive your written analysis by July 1st.

 

The next analysis deadline isn't until September!  

 
ADVICE FROM GORDY HOFFMAN 
From The BlueCat Blog


BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman discusses character arcs and themes.  

 


PHIL LORD ON REWRITING
From TED Talks
 
Phil Lord (co-writer/co-director of 21 Jump StreetThe Lego Movie, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) gives an amazing lecture on creativity, writing, and rewriting.

 

WATCH IT HERE


JULIAN FELLOWES ON WRITING
From BAFTA 
 
Writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park, Vanity Fair, creator of Downton Abbey) discusses his career and gives some advice in this clip from BAFTA. 
 
Hey, Whaddya Say? 

 

 

"I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working."

 

- Jane Campion
writer/director: The Piano, Sweetie, and 
Sundance Channel's Top of the Lake
SELECTED SCRIPTS
Three Screenplay PDFs

 

DALLAS BUYERS BLUB
by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack

 READ THE SCRIPT

 

 
HITCHCOCK
by John J. McLaughlin
 
 
ALI
by Stephen J. Rivele & Christopher Wilkinson and Eric Roth & Michael Mann,
story by Gregory Allen Howard
WES ANDERSON ON HIS NEW FILM 
From The New York Times
 

Wes Anderson discusses a scene from The Grand Budapest Hotel in this episode of the New York Times web series Anatomy of Scene.

 

ALFRED HITCHCOCK
In conversation with AFI

 

Alfred Hitchcock on evoking an emotional response from the audience.

 

 

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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!

 

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