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October 15th @ 11:59 pm PST 
                                    
 
  
    

2015 BLUECAT
SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

 Welcomes your submissions!

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

 
BlueCat accepts both feature length and short screenplays, and in keeping with our longstanding tradition, every screenplay will receive one written analysis, with our best screenplays receiving over $40,000 in cash prizes.

All submissions received by October 15th will receive their written analysis by November 10th.


 

Regular Deadline Submission Fees:

$65 for Features and $50 for Shorts   

 

SUBMIT YOUR SCRIPT 

 

  
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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: 

 

Honolulu - September 20th -REGISTER
(only 2 spots left)

Online - September 25th - REGISTER
Full Registration SOLD OUT. Regular Registration spots still available.

New York - October 4th - REGISTER 
(only 2 spots left)

San Francisco - October 25th - REGISTER
 (only 4 spots left)
 
Online - November 6th - REGISTER
 
Los Angeles - November 8th - REGISTER
Full Registration SOLD OUT. Regular Registration spots still available.

Online - December 4th - REGISTER 

Charlotte - December 13th - REGISTER
   
Please let us know if 

 

you'd like the BlueCat Workshop 

 

 to come to your town!

 

See you soon.