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Bluecat Announces Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2022 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Screenplay semifinalists. Finalists will announced May 10th. [Updated: 04/12/2022]

BlueCat Announces Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2022 Feature, Pilot, and Short Script Semifinalists. [Updated: 03/22/2022]

BlueCat Announces 2021 Contest Winners

Astray by Faizan Kareem has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. The Feature, Pilot, Short, and Fellini Award Winners have also been announced. [Updated: 05/19/2021]

BlueCat Names Contest Finalists

BlueCat has announced their 2021 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script finalists. [Updated: 05/12/2021]

BlueCat Names Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2021 Feature, Pilot, and Short Script Semifinalists. [Updated: 04/13/2021]

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their feature, pilot, short script semifinalists for 2021. [Updated: 03/31/2021]

BlueCat Announces Grand Prize Winner

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named Jane Barr and their 2020 Grand Prize Winner for her script, An American Tale. [Updated: 05/19/2020]

BlueCat Names 2020 Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script finalists. Winners will be announced on May 19th, 2020. [Updated: 05/12/2020]

BlueCat Names Contest Semifinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script semifinalists. Finalists will be announced on May 12th, 2020. [Updated: 04/14/2020]

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2020 Feature, TV Pilot, and Short Script quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced on April 14th, 2020. [Updated: 03/17/2020]

BlueCat Names Contest Winners

Fox Hollow by Ariel Sobel has been named the Winner of the BlueCat Screenplay Contest for 2019. Benjamin Christopher won the Hour-long Pilot Category for his script Tenth Street, while Katie Blair was the Half-Hour Winner for her script, Clay. [Updated: 05/07/2019]

BlueCat Names 2019 Finalists

BlueCat has named their top 5 Feature and TV Pilot finalists. [Updated: 04/30/2019]

BlueCat Names Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2019 Feature, TV, and Short Script semifinalists. [Updated: 04/11/2019]

BlueCat Names 2019 Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced quarterfinalists for their 2019 Feature, Short, and TV pilot contests. [Updated: 03/26/2019]

BlueCat Names Contest Winners

Death of a Fool by Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone has been named the winner of the 2018 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 07/05/2018]

BlueCat Names Finalists

BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Pilot, and Short Screenplay finalists. Winners will be announced Thursday, July 5th. [Updated: 06/28/2018]

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2018 Feature, Short, Pilot-Hour and Half-Hour quarterfinalists. [Updated: 06/07/2018]

BlueCat Screenplay Competition Announces 2017 Winners

Judy Soo Hoo & Isaac Ho's screenplay, CADAVER DOG, has been selected as the winner of the 2017 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Their script was selected from 3,273 submissions and will be awarded a $10,000 cash prize. [Updated: 09/18/2017]

BlueCat Names Short Script and Pilot Winners

BlueCat has named White-Shoe U by Beanie Barnes as the winner of their 2017 Pilot Competition, and Ageusia by Will Schneider as the winner of their Short Script Competition. [Updated: 09/01/2017]

BlueCat Names Top Five Finalists

BlueCat has named their top 5 Finalists from a total of 3,273 submissions. The Winner will receive $10,000 and the four remaining Finalists $1,000 each. [Updated: 08/31/2017]

BlueCat Names TV Pilot and Short Screenplay Finalists

BlueCat has named the Finalists for their TV Pilot and Short Screenplay Competitions. Winners will be announced on Friday, September 1st. [Updated: 08/27/2017]

BlueCat Names Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their Feature, Pilot, and Short Script Semifinalists. Finalists will be announced on Sunday, August 27th at 6PM, PST. [Updated: 08/21/2017]

BlueCat Names Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has named their 2017 Contest Quarterfinalists for Features, Pilots, and Shorts. [Updated: 08/15/2017]

BlueCat Screenplay Competition Announces 2016 Winners

Oreathia C. Smith's screenplay, MONA. RICHY. ROBBY. AND RAY, has been selected as the winner of the 2016 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Smith's script was selected from 4,523 submissions and will be awarded a $15,000 cash prize. Smith received an MFA in Writing at USC in 2011. [Updated: 04/06/2016]

BlueCat Announces Feature Contest Winner

Mona. Richy. Robby. And Ray. by Declan Holliman has been named the $15,000 Grand Prize Winner of the 2016 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 03/30/2016]

BlueCat Names Short Screenplay Contest Winner

Apart by Elizabeth Capot has been named the 2016 BlueCat Short Screenplay Contest Winner. [Updated: 03/28/2016]

BlueCat Names International Award Winners

BlueCat has announced their International Screenplay Awards for 2016. [Updated: 03/25/2016]

BlueCat Names Feature Screenplay Finalists

BlueCat has announced the five finalists for their 2016 Screenwriting Competition. The Winner will receive $15,000 and the other four Finalists will receive $2500. [Updated: 03/15/2016]

BlueCat Names Special Award Finalists

BlueCat has named the 2016 finalists for the Joplin, Cordelia, and Roshan Awards. [Updated: 03/14/2016]

BlueCat Names Short Screenplay Finalists

BlueCat has named their Short Screenplay Finalists for 2016. The Winner -to be announce March 28th - will receive $10,000, and the three Finalists receiving $2000 each. [Updated: 03/13/2016]

BlueCat Names Semifinalists

BlueCat has named their 2016 semifinalists, representing the top 78 scripts from a total of 4,523 submissions. The 2016 Feature Screenplay Winner will receive a $15,000 USD cash prize. Four Finalists will receive $2,500 each. [Updated: 03/09/2016]

BlueCat Names Feature and Short Screenplay Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has named their feature screenplay quarterfinalists from among 4,523 submissions. Short Screenplay quarterfinalists have also been announced from among 2,086 entries. [Updated: 02/07/2016]

BlueCat Names Grand Prize Winner

Mouth by Kimi Howl Lee has been named the $15,000 Feature Length Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 04/16/2015]

BlueCat Names Feature Finalists

BlueCat has named their 2015 Feature Screenplay Contest Finalists. The winner will receive a $15,000 cash prize while the remaining four finalists will receive $2,500 each. [Updated: 04/11/2015]

BlueCat Names 2015 Short Script Winner

Six Months of Wonder Woman by Kitty Percy has been named BlueCat $10,000 Short Script Competition winner for 2015. [Updated: 04/09/2015]

BlueCat Names Cordelia Award Winner

Butter Side Up by Kitty Percy, has been named the BlueCat Screenplay Competition Cordelia Award Winner, given each year to the best screenplay submitted by a writer residing in the U.K. [Updated: 04/08/2015]

BlueCat Names Joplin Award Winner

Leonardo Noboru de Lima's George! has been named the BlueCat Screenplay Competition Joplin Award Winner for 2015. [Updated: 04/07/2015]

BlueCat Names Top Ten Features

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their Feature Screenplay Top Ten Finalists [Updated: 04/06/2015]

BlueCat Names Short Script Finalists

BlueCat has named their Short Script Contest Finalists for 2015. [Updated: 04/04/2015]

BlueCat Names Feature Script Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2015 semifinalists, representing approximately the top 2% of 4,492 submissions. [Updated: 03/16/2015]

BlueCat Announces 2015 Short Script Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their Short Script Semifinalists for 2015. Finalists will be named April 4th. [Updated: 03/15/2015]

BlueCat Names Feature Screenplay Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their quarterfinalists for 2015, representing approximately the top 5% of 4,494 submissions. [Updated: 03/02/2015]

BlueCat Names Short Script Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their Short Screenplay Quarterfinalists for 2015, representing approximately the top 5 percent of 1730 entries. [Updated: 03/01/2015]

BlueCat Announces Top 10 Percent Short Screenplays

BlueCat has announced the top 10% of more than 1730 short screenplay submissions this year:

[Updated: 02/15/2015]

BlueCat Announces Top 10 Percent Features

BlueCat has announced the top 10% of more than 4,494 feature screenplay submissions this year:

[Updated: 02/15/2015]

BlueCat Announces Feature Screenplay Contest Winner

BlueCat has named 3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst by HF Crum as the winner of their 2014 Feature-length Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 04/10/2014]

BlueCat Announces Short Screenplay Contest Winner

BlueCat has named Winged by Jennifer Cui of Melbourne, Australia as the winner of their 2014 Short Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 04/09/2014]

BlueCat Announces Feature Screenplay Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their Feature Screenplay Finalists for 2014. [Updated: 04/05/2014]

BlueCat Announces Short Screenplay Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has named their Short Screenplay Finalists for 2014. [Updated: 04/03/2014]

BlueCat Announces Cordelia Award Winner

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has named Face to Face by Jason Pittock of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK as their 2014 Cordelia Award Winner. [Updated: 04/02/2014]

BlueCat Announces Joplin Award Winner

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has named The Longest Birthday by Savion Einstein of Tel Aviv, Israel as their 2014 Joplin Award winner. [Updated: 04/01/2014]

BlueCat Announces Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2014 Screenwriting Contest Semifinalists. [Updated: 03/16/2014]

BlueCat Announces 2014 Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their quarterfinalists from among a record total of 4060 feature and 1602 short submissions [Updated: 02/19/2014]

BlueCat Announces Top Ten Percent

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the top 10 percent of their contestants for 2013. [Updated: 02/02/2014]

BlueCat Announces 2013 Contest Winner

Demain, Je Me Tue, by Pierre Chance, has been named the $10,000 winner of the 2013 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 04/10/2013]

BlueCat Announces Joplin Award Winner

Hand Lit Match by Rachael BernSousa & Mary Lusted of Perth, Australia, has been named the winner of the 2013 Joplin Award for the Best Screenplay received by BlueCat from outside the USA, Canada and the UK. [Updated: 04/07/2013]

BlueCat Announces Cordelia Award Winner

Christopher Brown's Knock-Out has been given the 2013 Cordelia Award as the Best Screenplay received from the UK. [Updated: 04/05/2013]

BlueCat Announces Contest Finalists

Five finalists have been announced for the 2013 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 04/01/2013]

BlueCat Announces Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2013 Screenplay Contest Semifinalists. [Updated: 03/01/2013]

BlueCat Announces Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced 341 quarterfinalists from among a record 3391 submissions to their 2012 screenwriting competition. [Updated: 02/01/2013]

BlueCat Announces Short Screenplay Winner

Ben Cleary has been named the winner of the BlueCat Short Screenplay Competition for his script, Trumpet. [Updated: 08/02/2012]

BlueCat Announces Short Screenplay Semifinalists

Semifinalists have been announced for the 2012 BlueCat Short Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 07/22/2012]

BlueCat Announces Short Screenplay Quarterfinalists

Quarterfinalists have been announced for the 2012 BlueCat Short Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 07/15/2012]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winner

Michael Hamblin's The Emperor of Wyoming has been named the winner of the 2012 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 03/22/2012]

BlueCat Announces Finalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2012 finalists. [Updated: 03/16/2012]

BlueCat Announces Cordelia and Joplin Award Winners

BlueCat has announced the winners of their Cordelia and Joplin Awards for 2012. The Cordelia Award goes to the best screenplay from the UK, while the Joplin Award goes to the best screenplay outside the USA, Canada and the UK. [Updated: 03/15/2012]

BlueCat Announces Semifinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2012 semifinalists. [Updated: 03/01/2012]

BlueCat Announces Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2012 quarterfinalists. [Updated: 02/01/2012]

BlueCat Names Contest Winner

Robert Ian Simpson's Below the Waist has been named the winner from among 2,970 entries to the 2010 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 08/07/2010]

BlueCat Announces Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2010 finalists. [Updated: 08/02/2010]

BlueCat Announces Semifinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their semifinalists for 2010. [Updated: 07/16/2010]

Blue Announces Quarterfinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their quarterfinalists for 2010. [Updated: 06/16/2010]

BlueCat Announce Title Contest Winners

The 2010 BlueCat Screenplay Competition title contest winners have been announced. [Updated: 02/08/2010]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winner

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has named Jerry Mahoney as the winner of their 2009 Screenwriting Competition for his script Gladly McGee and the Damn Retarded F****t. [Updated: 08/02/2009]

BlueCat Announces Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their five finalists for 2009 [Updated: 07/23/2009]

BlueCat Announces Semifinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2009 semifinalists, representing approximately the top 1 percent of over 3200 submissions received this year. [Updated: 07/16/2009]

BlueCat Announces 2009 Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their screenwriting contest quarterfinalists for 2009, representing approximately the top 20 percent of their 3200 entries. [Updated: 06/15/2009]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winner

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced Timo E. Peltonen's The Piano Tuner as the winner of their 2008 contest. [Updated: 10/09/2008]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winner

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced Timo E. Peltonen's The Piano Tuner as the winner of their 2008 screenwriting competition, which attracted nearly 2,800 entries. [Updated: 09/02/2008]

BlueCat Announces Finalists

BlueCat has announced their 2008 screenwriting competition finalists. [Updated: 08/29/2008]

BlueCat Announces Top 20

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their top 20 finalists for 2008. [Updated: 08/15/2008]

BlueCat Announces 2008 Semi-Finalists

The Semi-Finalist have been announced for the 2008 BlueCat Screenwriting Comeptition. [Updated: 08/02/2008]

BlueCat Announces Quarterfinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2008 BlueCat Screenplay Competition quarterfinalists from among more than 2700 entries. [Updated: 07/01/2008]

The Heart and Soul of Screenwriting: Writing good dialogue and description

Writing dialogue and description is writing a screenplay. You can argue about format and tab margins and what to capitalize and what not. I won’t. Dialogue and description is where the experience of screenplay for your reader lives. We write screenplays to make movies. They are not literature. They are directions for people to make motion pictures. Our story is told in the dialogue and description, and by focusing on allowing them to work for your goals of production will illuminate where how your story goes. [Updated: 11/27/2007]

BlueCat Announces 2007 Contest Winner

BlueCat has announced Ana Lily Amirpour's The Stones as the winner of the this year's BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 08/04/2007]

BlueCat Announces 2007 Finalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced their 2007 Finalists. [Updated: 07/28/2007]

BlueCat Announces Semfinalists

BlueCat has announced their 2007 Screenwriting Contest semifinalists. [Updated: 07/15/2007]

BlueCat Announces Top 10 Percent

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the top 10 percent of entries for their 2007 Screenplay competition. Semi-finalists will be announced July 15th, Finalists on July 22nd and our winner on August 1. [Updated: 07/01/2007]

BlueCat Announces Movie Title Contest Top Five Winners

BlueCat has announced the Top Five winners of their Movie Title contest. All Five will be awarded $250 in honor of their creativity. [Updated: 02/01/2007]

BlueCat Announces Top 20 Movie Titles

BlueCat has announce the top twenty finalists in their movie title contest. [Updated: 01/20/2007]

Screenplay Live to Stage BlueCat Finalist

SCREENPLAY LIVE returns for a third year at the High Falls Film Festival with a staged reading of BEARD’S CREEK by Maureen Tilyou, a finalist of the 2006 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. [Updated: 11/03/2006]

BlueCat Announces 2006 Screenplay Live

BEARD’S CREEK by Marilyn Tilyou has been selected for BlueCat’s 2006 Screenplay Live at the High Falls Film Festival in New York. [Updated: 08/29/2006]

BlueCat Screenplay Winner Announced

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced HYUNG'S OVERTURE by Young Kim as their 2006 contest winner. [Updated: 08/02/2006]

2005 BlueCat Winner Shares Experience on Selling Script

ANDY STOCK, 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Winner and one of the writers of GARY THE TENNIS COACH, shares the journey of their screenplay going from a BlueCat submission to A-List Literary Representation and, subsequently, a sale and go picture. [Updated: 07/30/2006]

BlueCat Announces 2006 Finalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their 2006 finalists. [Updated: 07/16/2006]

2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Winner Sold

Seann William Scott has signed on to star and co-produce GARY THE TENNIS COACH, the 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Winner, with GreeneStreet Films (In The Bedroom, Swimfan). [Updated: 07/11/2006]

BlueCat Announces Semifinalists

The BlueCat Screenwriting Competition has announced their semifinalists from among 1,782 entries. [Updated: 07/01/2006]

Writing the Classic Movie Ending (How to Finish your Screenplay!)

I’ve only finished so many screenplays in my life. Writing a script all the way to the very last page is always an extremely significant, personal achievement for me. A large part of its significance is the reality that I actually wrote an ending, or, at the very least, typed “THE END.” Trying to finish a screenplay and effectively pay something off--this is arguably the hardest part of great screenwriting and often a major breaker of screenplays. [Updated: 02/23/2006]

How to Start a Screenplay: Treatment or Free Fall?

Starting a screenplay can sometimes be as hard as finishing one. Impatient to pull up to the front door of a classic motion picture, I want to get everything right so quickly. This impatience challenges my trust in the work, the creative process of screenwriting. What exactly does trust mean? If I don’t trust my writing, then what am I? Frightened. This is the battle. If I’m scared that everything I’m typing is worthless, then what? My hands find something else to do. So trust is good and important and essential to beginning this journey, alone, a trip that will eventually take what comes out of you into millions of people. But it’s just you now. And your trust. [Updated: 02/14/2006]

Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge

After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, the same problems in the execution of the story and script continue to emerge. Here is a general overview of these persistent issues. [Updated: 01/23/2006]

Bluecat 2004 Finalist Optioned

Kelsey Simons, 2004 BlueCat Finalist, has had her screenplay, IN THE LIVES OF BROTHERS, optioned by Eric Cubitt, a producer based in New York. [Updated: 01/05/2006]

SCREENPLAY LIVE Stages Reading of Bluecat Finalist

SCREENPLAY LIVE returned for its second year to the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, NY, with a live reading of 2005 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Finalist, THE BREAK-IN by Ryan David Jahn. [Updated: 01/04/2006]

Bluecat 2005 Winner Signed by UTA

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the signing of their 2005 contest winners, Andrew Stock and Ryan Stempson, by the United Talent Agency. [Updated: 11/23/2005]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winner

Man Among Boys, by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson, has been named the winner of the 2005 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition. [Updated: 07/26/2005]

BlueCat Announces 2005 Finalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the 2005 Finalists from among 1034 entries. [Updated: 07/01/2005]

BlueCat Honors Women Finalists at High Falls Film Festival

In November, Bluecat partnered with the High Falls Film Festival for the first edition of SCREENPLAY LIVE. [Updated: 02/10/2005]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winner

The BlueCat Screenwriting contest has announced Justin Thomas & Andrew Panaga as the winners of their 2004 screenwriting competition for their script, "The Man in the Rearview Mirror." [Updated: 07/16/2004]

BlueCat Announces Contest Finalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition has announced the Finalists for their 2004 competition. [Updated: 07/01/2004]

BlueCat Screenplay Competition Announces Winner

The BlueCat Screenplay competition has announced Jon Goldman as the winner of their 2003 Screenplay Competition for his script, ESCHER. [Updated: 07/22/2003]

BlueCat Announces Contest Winners

Danielle Silvie Gershberg has been named the winner of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition for her high school comedy CLASS. [Updated: 10/18/2001]

BlueCat Announces Contest Finalists

Six scripts have been named the best of more than 600 entries. [Updated: 08/14/2001]

BluCat's Gordy Hoffman Announces Contest Winners

[Updated: 12/05/2000]

BlueCat Announces Contest Finalists

[Updated: 06/17/2000]

BlueCat Announces Winner & Finalists in Hollywood Reporter

[Updated: 09/12/1999]

Call for Entries: BlueCat Screenplay Competition

[Updated: 09/02/1999]

Blue Screenplay Competition Announces Winner

[Updated: 06/21/1999]

BlueCat Screenplay Competition Announces Finalists

[Updated: 05/13/1999]

Interviews

MovieBytes Interview: Gordy Hoffman

An interview with Gordy Hoffman regarding the BlueCat Writing Competition. [Updated: 01/29/2007]

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Lily Amirpour

An interview with screenwriter Lily Amirpour regarding the BlueCat Contest Writing Competition. [Updated: 03/06/2008]

MovieBytes Interview:Screenwriter Rick Stempson

An interview with screenwriter Rick Stempson regarding the BlueCat Writing Competition. [Updated: 02/07/2007]

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