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The Official Newsletter of the

BlueCat Screenplay Competition   


July 1, 2014

IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
  • 2014 BlueCat winner HF Crum lands representation!
  • Advice from BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman 
  • 3 SCREENPLAYS: Brick, Witness, and Good Night and Good Luck
  • A great screenwriting tip from writer/director Stephen Gaghan
  • Wisdom from Robert Bresson
  • Edward Burns discusses his process and writing schedule
  • Elmore Leonard's Top 10 Tips for Writers
  • A short video series from the WGA focusing on life as a screenwriter
 

2014 BLUECAT WINNER

HF CRUM LANDS REPRESENTATION

 

We are pleased to announce that 2014 BlueCat Winner HF Crum has signed with manager 

Michelle Knudsen at MXN!

 

Ms. Knudsen was co-producer on Jason Bateman's film Bad Words and also represents screenwriting team

Yana Gorskaya & Maia Rossini, who are currently writing a film for Fox and director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids).

 

In other news -- 2014 Feature Finalist Dennis Capps has won the Grand Prize of the Filmmakers International Screenwriting Awards!

 

Congrats to our BlueCat Alumni!

 

  

BLUECAT ADVICE VIDEO
From The BlueCat Blog


BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman on what you should do after you've written a great short script. 

 

WATCH THE VIDEO


STEPHEN GAGHAN
From The Writers Guild Foundation
 

An amazing piece of writing advice from screenwriter and filmmaker Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana, Rules of Engagement). 

 

WATCH THE VIDEO

 

FILMMAKER EDWARD BURNS
Screenwriting Advice
 

Amazing advice from writer/director Edward Burns, who discusses his process and goes into detail about how he schedules his time. 

 
Hey, Whaddya Say? 

 

 

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper, is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

- Robert Bresson

writer/director of

A Man Escaped and Au Hasard Balthazar

 
SELECTED SCRIPTS
Three Screenplay PDFs

 

BRICK
by Rian Johnson

 

 

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
 
 
WITNESS
by Earl W. Wallace & William Kelley, story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, & Earl W. Wallace
THE WRITER'S LIFE
From the WGA
 
A short video series about life as a screenwriter, featuring Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby), and more...

 

WATCH THE VIDEOS


ELMORE LEONARD'S TOP 10 RULES FOR WRITERS
From The New York Times

 

"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

 

 READ IT HERE

 

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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: 

 

Los Angeles - July 19th - REGISTER
(only 3 spots left)

 

Portland - July 31st -  SOLD OUT

 

Pittsburgh - August 4th - REGISTER
(only 1 spot left)

 

Online - August 14th - SOLD OUT

  

Los Angeles - September 14th - REGISTER 

 

Honolulu - September 20th - REGISTER

 

Online - September 25th - REGISTER

 

San Francisco - October 25th - REGISTER   

 

Please let us know if 

 

you'd like the BlueCat Workshop 

 

 to come to your town!

 

See you soon.  

 

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