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BlueCat Names Contest Finalists
BlueCat has announced their 2026 finalists for both features and short. Winners will be announced on February 24th.
FEATURES
5 features out of 2,715 total feature submissions:
Hijrah Girls by Alessandra Bautze
Life as a Mesoplankton by Ariella Stoian
Monochrome by Devin Githara-Pipkin
Vena Sewn In by Ann Marie Martin
Wildcats by Judith C Posey
SHORTS
5 shorts out of 1,091 total short submissions:
Let Me Run by Benjamin Samuel
Mouthpiece by Christian D.K. Long
Smokeshow by Chloe Leigh King
Tudor Core by Ella Gonzales
Zeenat And The Men Who Give Her Pause by Richa Rudola
Updated: 02/17/2026
Additional Contest Info: BlueCat Screenplay Competition
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media.
LOTUS OPERANDI
This one is pure Fun! It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists.
CITY DWELLERS (The Millennials)
A Veteran FBI Agent outsmarts a cult of young cyber crooks.
CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
NOCTURNE'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs find the Rainbow Bridge in a snowstorm.
Revelation
A young peasant girl is tasked to help heal an arrogant teenage samurai who is gravely wounded while persecuting Christians
KASHINO
A true story about a highly decorated Japanese American sergeant who pays the price for blaming his commander for the loss of his men.
THE NEO-PAGANS
A talented forensic sketch artist has the gift of “seeing” murderers with her hands.
COLLISION COURSE
Set in a near-future Africa, an expatriate American engineer and a female South African sea captain whose supertanker is sabotaged to destroy his underwater wave-power farm, join forces to solve the murders of his wife and best friend in a web of conspiracy involving corrupt politicos, greedy CEO’s and mercenaries led by a psychotic assassin.
