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What's New, BlueCat?
The Official Newsletter of the
BlueCat Screenplay Competition
May 27th, 2015
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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
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.
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