What's New, BlueCat?

The Official Newsletter of the

BlueCat Screenplay Competition

September 29th,
2015

IN THIS WEEK'S NEWSLETTER:

Winners of the 2016 Best Movie Title Contest!
BlueCat & Dog Bowl in London!
Call for Entries: Submit your Feature and Short Scripts
Selected Scripts: Pulp Fiction & A Clockwork Orange
Blue's Beats: Fight Club
Ask BlueCat Video Series: Should I address the reader in my screenplay?
BlueCat Review: Sicario
Criticizing Modernity: Looking Back at Jacques Tati's Playtime
Dog Bowl Movie Merchandise
Upcoming BlueCat Screenwriting Workshops

Announcing the Winners of the 2016

Best Movie Title Contest!

Congratulations to:

"The Last Gales of Consciousness"

Michael Castaldo

"The Underwhelming After"

Jillian LaRussa

"In Debt to No Lighthouse"

Salahudeen Abdush Shaheed

Thank you to everyone who participated in voting. Head over to the BlueCat Blog for more information on BlueCat's annual

Best Movie Title Contest.

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BlueCat & Dog Bowl

in London!

Don't miss the international premiere of Dog Bowl at the Raindance International Film Festival in London, this Thursday, October 1st, 6:20 PM at Vue Piccadilly.

BUY TICKETS

Hang out with BlueCat founder and judge, Gordy Hoffman, after the Dog Bowl screening! The BlueCat Screenwriters After-Party will be held at Jewel Piccadilly, just a short walk from the festival.

RSVP

Don't forget to register for the London Screenwriting Workshop, Saturday, October 3rd from 11 AM to 6 PM. Only 3 full registration spots left!

REGISTER

BlueCat Review:
Sicario is an Intense, Thought Provoking Thriller

Emily Blunt gives a masterful performance as an idealistic FBI agent sent to the frontline of the War on Drugs in Denis Villenueve's Sicario.

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Blue's Beats:

Fight Club

This week, I break the first and second rule of Fight Club by examining the script for the 1999 film from David Fincher, written by Jim Uhles.

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Criticizing Modernity: Looking Back at Jacques Tati's Playtime

I take a look back at Jacques Tati's visual and aural presentation of themes in the 1967 classic, Playtime.

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Regular Deadline:

October 15th

BlueCat is currently accepting feature and short submissions for the 2016 Competition. This is the last deadline to receive early analysis, and all scripts entered by Oct 15th are eligible for resubmission!

SUBMIT

Selected Scripts

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

READ THE SCRIPT

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

READ THE SCRIPT

ASK BLUECAT Video Series

Over our history, BlueCat has often been asked questions from our community. Topics range from script formatting, improving dialogue, to finding representation. BlueCat founder and judge Gordy Hoffman attempts to answers your questions in our video feature, Ask BlueCat.

Q: Should I address the reader in my screenplay?

Dog Bowl Movie Merchandise

Support Gordy Hoffman's new short film, Dog Bowl, by purchasing a

hoodie or t-shirt!

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Upcoming 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.

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