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BlueCat Screenplay Competition   



May 27th, 2015



We are pleased to announce the
2016 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Official Call for Entries!

 


 
Every year, BlueCat provides a community for the unknown screenwriter to develop their work, giving undiscovered talent a path to professional success. 
 
NOW accepting both Feature length and Short screenplays. Every entry will receive one written screenplay analysis, with our best scripts receiving over $40,000 in cash awards.
 
EARLY DEADLINE: JUNE 15TH 
All submissions received by June 15th will receive their written analysis by July 1st.

 
Whats New This Year!?
 
BlueCat has a few exciting changes! 
 
-We have raised our short screenplay finalists and international awards from a $1,500 cash prize to $2,000! 
 
-We also added a new international award:  The Roshan Award
Best screenplay from a writer residing in India $2000 USD  
 

2016 AWARDS  
 
$15,000 Grand Prize 
Four Finalists
$2500 Prize
 
$10,000 Grand Prize
Three Finalists
$2000 Prize
 
Best Feature Screenplay from the UK
$2000 Prize
 
Best Feature Screenplay from outside the USA, Canada or the UK
 $2000 Prize
 
Best Feature Screenplay from India
$2000 Prize
 
Three Winners: $250 each
All screenplays entered by August 1 are eligible


 
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Recent achievements by BlueCat Alumni include:  

  • 2007 BlueCat Winner Ana Lily Amipour's debut feature, "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night," was produced by Elijah Wood and premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It will be distributed by Kino Lorber (Oldboy, Manuscripts Don't Burn) nationwide in Fall 2014. She is currently teaming up with Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures for her sophomore feature film THE BAD BATCH. 
  • BlueCat Finalist Aaron Guzikowski's #1 Film "Prisoners," (Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Melissa Leo) was released in September 2013 through Warner Brothers. Guzikowski is also the creator of "The Red Road," (Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa, Julianne Nicholson) which is SundanceTV's second scripted original series. He was recently hired to scribe Universal's upcoming THE WOLFMAN.
  • 2014 BlueCat Winner HF Crum has signed with manager Michelle Knudsen at MXN. Knudsen co-produced Jason Bateman's "Bad Words" and also represents screenwriting team Yana Gorskaya & Maia Rossini, who are currently writing a film for FOX and director Paul Feig. Crum's "3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst" won Best Feature Screenplay at the 2014 Slamdance Screenplay Competition. 
  • 2014 BlueCat Joplin Award Winner Savion Einstein has been named as one of six fellows to the 2014 Black List Lab and will be mentored by Jessica Bendinger (Bring it On, Stick It), Max Borenstein (Godzilla, Seventh Son), Jesse Wigutow (It Runs in the Family, The Prince) and Scott Myers (K-9, Alaska). 
  • 2006 BlueCat Winner Young Il Kim's script, "Rodham," attached director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) after having been on the 2012 Black List. Young recently won the 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Commissioning Grant from Sundance, and is currently writing a biopic on Stephen Hawking.
 
 
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:

  

Atlanta - June 28th - REGISTER 
(Full Registration Sold Out) 

 

Indianapolis - July 15th - REGISTER 

(Only 3 spots left)  

Columbus - July 18th - REGISTER
(Only 2 spots left)

 Phoenix - July 25th - REGISTER
(Full Registration Sold Out)

Chicago - August 8th - REGISTER

(Full Registration Sold Out)  

  

Chicago - August 9th - REGISTER

  

Vancouver - August 29th - REGISTER

Seattle - August 30th - REGISTER
(Only 3 spots left)

 Portland - September 9th - REGISTER
(Only 4 spots left)

Los Angeles - September 13th - REGISTER

Washington DC - September 19th - REGISTER
(Only 3 spots left) 
 
New York City - September 20th - REGISTER 
(Full Registration Sold Out)
 
Austin - October 11th - REGISTER 
 
New Orleans - October 17th - REGISTER 

 

Pittsburgh - November 9th - REGISTER
 
Rochester - November 10th - REGISTER 

  

Please let us know if you'd like the BlueCat Workshop 

to come to your town!

  

See you soon.