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The Official Newsletter of the

BlueCat Screenplay Competition   


August 5th, 2014

IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:
  • BlueCat's August Writing Challenge
  • An interview with Gordy Hoffman from the Selling Your Screenplay podcast 
  • 3 SCRIPTS: Saving Mr. Banks, Collateral, and Poltergeist
  • An interview with Caroline Thompson (writer of Edward Scissorhands)
  • Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Chaplin's City Lights
  • An interview with Guardians of the Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman
  • Screenwriters Karen McCullah & Kirsten Smith on their writing process
  • Wisdom from legendary director William Wyler
  • BlueCat Workshop information

THE AUGUST

WRITING CHALLENGE

 

THE GOAL:

to write 100 pages by September 1st

 

Join the BlueCat community for the August Writing Challenge. It may sound daunting, but if you commit to writing 3 or 4 pages per day during the month of August, you will have an entire draft by September 1st!  

 

Keep us updated on your progress using 

 Twitter,  Facebook, or Instagram with the hashtag:

 

#writemovies   

 

 

GORDY HOFFMAN INTERVIEW
From The SYS podcast


BlueCat founder Gordy Hoffman was recently interviewed on the Selling Your Screenplay podcast hosted by Ashley Scott Meyers. Gordy discusses his career and gives some great advice to aspiring screenwriters.

 

LISTEN HERE

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY CO-WRITER NICOLE PERLMAN
From Time Magazine
 

Guardians of the Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman is the first credited female screenwriter to work on a Marvel property. She discusses working on the film as well as her path to getting started in the industry.

CAROLINE THOMPSON INTERVIEW 
Writing Edward Scissorhands

 

Screenwriter Caroline Thompson, in conversation with Jog Road Productions, discusses writing Edward Scissorhands and collaborating with Tim Burton.

 

Hey, Whaddya Say? 

 

"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."

 

-William Wyler

director of The Best Years of Our Lives,

Ben-Hur, and Mrs. Miniver

SELECTED SCRIPTS
Three Screenplay PDFs

SAVING MR. BANKS
by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith

COLLATERAL
by Stuart Beattie, Frank Darabont, Michael Mann

POLTERGEIST
by Steven Spielberg


BEHIND THE SCENES: CITY LIGHTS
From The Criterion Collection
 
Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights


KAREN MCCULLAH & KIRSTEN SMITH INTERVIEW
From Academy Originals

 

Screenwriting duo Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith (10 Things I Hate About You, Legally Blonde) discuss their writing process in this video from the Academy Originals series.

 

WATCH THE VIDEO

 

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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: 

 

Online - August 14th - SOLD OUT

  

Honolulu - September 20th - REGISTER

(only 4 spots left)

 

Online - September 25th - REGISTER

(only 2 spots left)

 

San Francisco - October 25th - REGISTER

 

Online - November 6th - REGISTER 

 

Los Angeles - November 8th - REGISTER

 

Online - December 4th - REGISTER

 

Please let us know if 

 

you'd like the BlueCat Workshop 

 

 to come to your town!

 

See you soon.  


 

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