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The Official Newsletter of the

BlueCat Screenplay Competition   


June 17, 2014

IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
  • BlueCat's Gordy Hoffman on how to win a screenplay competition
  • 3 Scripts: Shutter Island, All Is Lost, and The Place Beyond the Pines
  • Screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis on her writing process and career
  • Advice from Akira Kurosawa
  • The Coen brothers on writing and filmmaking
  • Edgar Wright discusses a scene from The World's End
  • Screenwriter Jose Rivera on his craft
  • BlueCat Screenwriting Workshop dates
 

BLUECAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

 
ADVICE FROM GORDY HOFFMAN 
From The BlueCat Blog


BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman tells you how to win a screenplay competition.   

 


LAETA KALOGRIDIS ON WRITING
From The WGA
 

Laeta Kalogridis (writer of Shutter Island and the upcoming Terminator sequel) discusses her writing process and career in this interview with the WGA. 

 

"I've taken a number of creative leaps, and some of them worked, and some of them didn't, but I don't regret any of them because you can't possibly get to the ones that work without the ones that don't. To me that's a very artistically fulfilling way to live."

 

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW


INTERVIEW WITH THE COENS
From BAFTA 
 

In this short clip from BAFTA, the Coen brothers discuss their creative process. 

 

Hey, Whaddya Say? 

 

 

"Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly."  

 

- Akira Kurosawa
SELECTED SCRIPTS
Three Screenplay PDFs

 

SHUTTER ISLAND
by Laeta Kalogridis

 READ THE SCRIPT

 

 
ALL IS LOST
by J.C. Chandor
 
 
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
by Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio, & Darius Marder
EDGAR WRIGHT DISCUSSES THE WORLD'S END 
From The New York Times
 

Edgar Wright (co-writer/director of The World's End) discusses a pivotal scene from the film in this episode of the New York Times web series "Anatomy of a Scene." 

 

SCREENWRITER JOSE RIVERA
In conversation with THE DIALOGUE

 

Jose Rivera (writer of The Motorcycle Diaries and On the Road) discusses his craft in this interview from The Dialogue's "Tricks of the Trade" series.

 

 

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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   

 

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you'd like the BlueCat Workshop 

 

 to come to your town!

 

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