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BlueCat Screenplay Competition
BlueCat Screenplay
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Hollywood , CA 90078
(323) 785-2338 (voice)
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Contact: Gordy Hoffman, Founder
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The 2025 BlueCat Screenplay Competition is now open for entries! Submit your feature or short script by the EARLY DEADLINE (August 13th) and get your written analysis by September 12th. Every project submitted will receive their written analysis at no additional cost!
Over 400 managers and agents will be contacted on behalf of the winners and finalists!
There will be two winners: Feature Screenplay and Short Script. We also award the Fellini Prize to the best international screenplay submitted. The two winners will win $3,000 each and the Fellini winner will receive $2,000.
BlueCat has a long and distinguished history of discovering unknown screenwriters, introducing them to the industry, and launching their careers. Show More
Deadline/Entry Fees
| Deadline | Date Days till: |
Entry Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Early | August 13, 2024 | Feature $65, Short $30 |
| Regular | September 17, 2024 | Feature $75, Short $40 |
| Final | October 29, 2024 25 |
Feature $85, Short $45 |
| Late | December 10, 2024 67 |
Feature $95, Short $50 |
See website for resubmission deadlines & fees.
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Notification: Quarterfinalists will be announced on February 25th, 2025; Semifinalists will be announced on March 11th, 2025; Finalists will be announced on March 31st, 2025; Winners will be announced on April 8th, 2025.
Rules
Please visit website for Rules & Guidelines.
Awards
- Every script submission will receive a complimentary written analysis.
- The Feature Screenplay Winner will receive $3,000.
- The Short Script Winner will receive $3,000.
- The Fellini Award will be awarded to the Best Screenplay from any category (Feature or Short) of the 2025 Competition written by a writer residing outside the USA and will receive $2000.
- All cash prizes will be disbursed 30 days after the winners are announced.
BlueCat Screenplay
Contact
Hollywood , CA 90078
(323) 785-2338 (voice)
Web:
https://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/
Email:
info@bluecatscreenplay.com
Contact: Gordy Hoffman, Founder
MovieBytes Interview: Gordy Hoffman
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BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Contact
Hollywood , CA 90078
(323) 785-2338 (voice)
Web:
https://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/
Email:
info@bluecatscreenplay.com
Contact: Gordy Hoffman, Founder
MovieBytes Interview: Gordy Hoffman
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BlueCat Announces Contest Winner
Man Among Boys, by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson, has been named the winner of the 2005 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
Man Among Boys
by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson
An ethically challenged Rod Laver worshipper moonlighting as a custodian finds himself in charge of the high school tennis team, only to throw down the singularly most unorthodox coaching performance in the history of the game.
All queries should be directed to the authors:
andrstock@yahoo.com 512.731.4129.
Finalists
Donnie's Brother by Jim Beggarly
With his parents buckling under the pressure of an impending tragedy, a high school basketball star hatches a getaway with an odd convenience store clerk named Donnie, to start over with his brother out of state, a brother who the entire town claims is not alive.
JimBeggarly@hotmail.com 917.287.0771
Panacea by Aaron Guzikowski
When a tiny statue a boy has found in the woods apparently awakens his comatose father, his mother sets out to heal the world, one person at a time, until she slowly realizes each and every cure has a disturbing cost.
aguzikow@digitas.com 917.327.4893
The Break-In by Ryan David Jahn
After a man kills a burglar in self-defense, he elects to leave the body in his bathtub, setting out on an obsessive hunt to discover the identity of his victim, who happens to be his identical twin.
ryandavidjahn@yahoo.com
Holy Hell by Frances Zuccarel
A tailspinning, sexual triangle between two Catholic priests and the owner of a Hell's Kitchen speakeasy implodes over Ash Wednesday 1930 against the backdrop of a violent transit worker strike, when suddenly, quite out of nowhere, they bear witness to a miracle.
beautykilledbeast@yahoo.com 212.253.9742
2005 Honorable Mentions
The Kewpie Doll Kiss by George Birimisa
Elder Franklin by Anthony Brosnan
The Living Sky by Jack Dawe
Vineyard Sound by Eric Molinsky
You May Say I'm A Dreamer by Cinthea Stahl
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition is open to writers worldwide and received 1035 entries this year.
Updated: 07/26/2005
BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Contact
Hollywood , CA 90078
(323) 785-2338 (voice)
Web:
https://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/
Email:
info@bluecatscreenplay.com
Contact: Gordy Hoffman, Founder
MovieBytes Interview: Gordy Hoffman
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