We are so excited to announce the 2022 BlueCat Quarterfinalists! Thanks for all of your submissions. Our Semifinalists will be announced on April 12th.
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Features
There are 301 feature quarterfinalists out of a total of 2779.
16670 by Rich Mauro
¿SAY, QUÉ?! by Erik Baker
10 West by Nick Gallagher
300 Sacrifices Of Children by Devon Villacampa
7th Soul by Michael N. Ruggiero
A Bitter Frost by D.T. Yang
A Boy is a Boy is a Bomb by Søren Bredberg
A Football Hero by Jonah Tapper
A Moment Of Your Time by Adam Lapallo & Diana D’Amato
A More Certain Light by Liz Corbett
A Revolutionary Act by Lisa Russell
A Safe Place For Shelter by George Wilson
A Trapdoor by James James
About Tonight by Azan Kung
Above Mars by Kyle Kizu
After Ever After by David Schwartz
After Men by Adrian Lall
Alchemists of Alexandria by Brian DeWilde
All My Love, Kate by Joe Breen
Alms by Andrei Ivan Mamal
Altars of Greed by Brennan Howard
American Butterfly by Oliver Charles Silver
American Underdog by Gustavo Martin & Matthew Mascia & Vish Iyer
Antonia Zulueta by Ronald L. Ecker & Kyle Barnett
Art by Stefan Mannes
Ask Already by Sandra Lince
Before The Others by Meko Winbush
Beheaded by Helen Williams
Belvedere by Jonathan Steinfield
Berry Pickers by Agnes Karlsson
Best Served Cold by Bill Crossland
Black Waters by Kate Imy
Blackwood by Richard Powell
Blinded by Faith by Helen Hudson
Blood and Ash by Kenneth Sanabria
Blue Money by Tom Towslee
Bo by Roland Paul Greedy
Bombshell by Ludwig Leidig & Brett Williams & Yuri Joakimidis
Bond Street by Ryan Moore
Bunny by Heidi Hayward
Bushfire by Warren Paul Glover
Buying Drugs Near the White House by Arik Cohen
By Dark Lake by Tylie Cox
Carville by Jonah Tapper
Catching Out by Lizabeth Yandel
Charlie’s Spot by George O’Connor
Child of the Disappeared by Michael Holliday
Children Of The Spirit Moon by Dan Loschack
Chimera by Andrew Kaberline
Christmas Spirit by Paul Hennessy
Cipher by Michael Zarocostas & Taymour Ghazi
Clams by Sijia Cao
Clearwater by Jeff Bryce
Cloak by Eric Bodge
Cocol by Jeremy Pope
Compatible by Anthea Jones
Cottage Grove by George Ellzey Jr.
Curly’s Camp for Girls (and Boys) by Kelly Byrne
Dead Reckoning by Chad Hutson
Death by Chocolate by Callie Cohn
Death Steppe by Judy Bruce
Declassified by Raymond Hauck
Defined by Memory by Conor Ryan
Delby’s Merry Chaos by Dan & Azuure Joffre
Desdemona by Nelson Downend
Detour by Brad Palmisano
Doc Band-Aid by Bob Bland
Dogs of War by Jamaul Benjamin Phillips
Dom and Felix by Bridget Flanery
Don Q by Ben Lokey
Don’t Be a Jerk Today by Joe Leary
Donna And Samir Do A Kidnapping by Paul M. Horan
Dread by Colton Lawrence
Dreamworld by Brian Quinn
Driving Into Oblivion by Rory MacColl
Driving with Shannon by Sven Anarki
Dusty Cowboys by Stanley Schofield
El Recuerdo by Andres Borda González
Elf Angie by Thomas Carmody
Emotional Support Animal by Suzie Bohannon
Errol Flynn Dies In The End by Rory Waltzer
Evening of the Irredeemable by James Martin Lafferty
Everbrook by Aaron Morgan & Eric Vespe
Everybody Wants To Be Italian! by Jessica Abrams
Everybody’s Happy by Andrew Hiss
Far Rider by Kai Kido
Fear by Rene van Rooyen
Feel Better by Sarah Tither-Kaplan
Fermat’s [not quite] Last Theorem by Brent Pollard
Finding Santa by Matthew Giacheri
Fine Print by Domenica Hoyes
Firestorm by Randy Nelson
Fish Go Deep by Lex Sidon
Five Thousand Years by Jim Grieco
Fly Away Blackbird by Jacqueline Read
Fly on the Wall by Felipe Martins Fernandes
FMK by David Jacks & Jeff Grimm
Forever by Nonie Shiverick
Forkful by Joseph Izzo & Joseph Mangelli
Frankie by Bishrel Mashbat
Future Tense by T. S. Daly
Gang of One: Hurricane Ron by CJ Hatch
Ghostwriter by Harry Sadeghi
Glycerine by Michael Easton
Go Left! by Suzanne Guacci
Gozzy Boys by Kat Svaldi
Hacking the Mob by Jason Riou
Halloween Parade by Julie Sharbutt
Halmoni’s Pot (Grandma’s Pot) by A. L. Lee
Hangman by J.C. Doler & Paul Petersen
Happy Little Trees by Patrick Franklin
Hard Rain Falling by Lawton Browning
Harper Mason by B. Isabella Bodnar
Harvest by Melanie Sevcenko
Head Games by David Page
Henry and Gino by Danielle Reid
Holding On by Will Ahrens
I am the Dragon King by Storm Choi
Improv by Genet Hughes
In-Security by Jacquelyn A. Gibbons
Inevitable Cruelty by Emma Hicklin
Is That you, Cecelia? by Erica Scandariato
It Happened In Silence by Shaun Delliskave
It’s Over by Jeffrey Max
Juliet by Jesse Russell & Olga Rojer
Keslare Moon by Julie Merrick
Kiwi by Eric Rich
Lawn of the Dead by Rick Mele
Lexi & Annie by Teagan Trace
Long Way Home by Jamaal D. Pittman
Losing Brooklyn by Joe Delissio
Lou & Linda by Richell Morrissey
Love Unknown by Alex Stathis
Main Drag by Ryan Thorsen
Masters and Servants by John Enright
Meetings With Marty by Gregor Nicholas
Mi Romeo by Brian Paglinco
Midnight Concert by Charlotte Briones
Mimi and Saad: An American Love Story by Usman Ally
Mind Games by Matthew Manson
Missing Mandy by Jordan Lavender
Mister C by Terry Connell
Monster on the Miracle Mile by Patrick Crozier
Mr. Wendall by Justin Sherman
My First and Last Film by Stavros Costarides
My Undeniable Attraction by Kathryn Kim & Margaret Rossini
Nando’s Legacy by Davida Lippman
Neon Kites by Alan Sim
No Second Prize by Michael Wormald
Noble Iceland by Christian Pendered Zur
Nor Gloom of Night by Stuart J Forrest
Oath by Paul Frank
Octo Sapiens by Cameron Broadhurst
Old Man Young Man Snake by Bradley Hathaway
On The Wire by Craig Nobbs
Once Upon A Time In London by Rob Napoletani
Once Upon a Time in Tokyo by A.Jay.U.
One Man Army by Lawrence Whitener
Oneonta by Joseph Delissio
Osama Bin La La Land by Michael Howard
Out To Launch by Patrick Corcoran
Pacha by Michael G. Cooney
Parodi and the Whales by Matias Vellutini & Rob Dunn
Phoebe by Jason K. Allen
Pipe Dream by Corey Mayne & Eric Mayne
Post Great by Adam Stuart Hersh
Powder House by Gibran Mendez
Prison To Paradise by Peter Narodny
Protest Art by Jacob Marx Rice
Raven Winters and the Spirit Vortex by Heather Ostrove
Rebel by Charles Cordaro
Recitation by Courtney Froemming
Refracted by Roger Thomas
Rich Men Die Happy by Sam Stillman
Ritchie Boy by Alan J. Field
Romi’s Theorem by Rachelle Zalter
Rootstock by Nick Kokonas
S.H.A.R.P. by Josh Auter
Sanctuary by Darryl Wimberley
Sasha and Pancho by Dave MacLean
Sathu – Year of the Rabbit by Josh Trigg
Say Boo by Francis M. Abbey
Separation Anxiety by Aidan J. Stebbins
Sexual Healing by Alexander Bozicevich
Shadows From Above by Joseph Imperial
Should It Be This Hard by Nina Winther
Shroomsday by Christopher Wade & Matthew Allen
Siege on Sand Mountain by John Park
Since I Left You by Casey McFeron
Sinema Slayer by Andrew Madsen
Sled Race by Kevin Jordan
Slo Burn by Andres Rovira & Kelly Esparza
Snatched & Held by Joseph Helms
Sons of Treason by Sheila Rinear
Space and Time by Wendy Anson
Splintered by Sebastien Woolf
Spoons by Connie Lansberg
Stars & Stripes by Erica Ruhe
Strangers In Shanghai by Liz Lachman & Cynthia Greening
Subversives by Brett C. K. Bowker
Susie Lee: -Daughter of Mercy by Robert Orlando
Suzanne Valadon: The Sin I Will Commit Again by Mikelle Kruger & Patrick O. McKenna
Swimming with Pigs by Bernhard Schilling
Symphony of Blue by Lexi Savoy
Team Emma by Andrea Zastrow
The 4th Wall by Eric Lehning & Billy Senese
The Ampersand Inn by C.J. Arellano
The Angel of the Waters by Akiva Cohen
The Backbenchers by John Economopoulos
The Belvedere Jungle by Robert Kelly McAllister
The Blue Blood Moon by David Sabbath
The Boy in the Well by Abdullah Azizi
The Burning Chicken by Mo Faisal
The Casket Girl by John Darbonne
The Chaperone by Jonathan Todd Ross
The Choice by Roger Walker
The Crisis by Omid Niliaram
The Downward Spiral by Tim Granados
The Dream Cake by Anthea Jones
The Eden by Gonçalo Eugénio Pereira de Oliveira
The Face of Goode, Evil & Heroic by Paul Kemp
The Faerie Rings by Zina Brown
The Feelers by Laurie Jones
The Fly that Doesn’t Listen Follows the Corpse into the Grave by Lu Asfaha
The Forgotten Borough by Jeff Ingber
The Game AKA A Certain Romance by Andreas Terry Toumbas
The Glorious Revolution by Hanna Nielson
The Handler 1 – Junkyard Dog by Lawrence Whitener
The Hard & Short of It by Fredrick Leach
The Idiots: A Tale From The Ryft by Trey Kalb
The Image Makers by Marina Shron
The Itch by Jeremy Bradford
The Key of Be by Rich H. Kenney, Jr.
The Lady and The Tiger by Sam Caton
The Lady in the Cellar by Par’ Mims
The Last Communion of Teddy Munroe by Tom Furniss
The Library of Forgotten Technology by Nina Winther
The Lost Cause Chatelains by Chris March
The Luminous Child by Cheryl Wade
The Magic Hourglass by Joel Karlinsky
The Magnificent Seven Dwarfs by Adam Tedder
The Man Doctrine by Christopher Prince
The Missing Ink (of the Xia) by Paul Wensley
The Monocle by Mark Cavanagh
The Night Witches by Steven John Prowse
The Night Within by Mark Lammerding
The Particular Peculiarities of a Sooty-Capped Puffbird by Michele Atkins
The Rebel Orphan by Mat Kanno
The Remnant Faithful by Andrew Steven Poschner
The Royal Game by Tony Gilbert
The Runner by Nora McAree
The Salamander Letter by Liz Lachman & Cynthia Greening
The Seamstress of Santo Tomas by Les Smith
The Secret Notes of Professor Thomas by Joni Ravenna & Joshua Townshend Zellner
The Sequel by Daron Weiss
The Shakers by Steven Prieto
The Space Between Men by Valerie McCaffrey
The Specials (Plus One) by Paul Timblick
The Stupid Bastards by Paul Coleman & Matt Landry
The Sun in the Soul by Massimo Bruni
The Third Day by Jave Galt-Miller
The Truth Serum by Martin K Zitter
The unNatural Order by Becca E. Davis
The War in Serendipity by Noel Hoffmann
The Wind Howls by Carlos J. Matos
This Land is our Land by Austin Rodriguez
This Songs For You by Mark Cervasio
Those Women by Nikki Williams
Thunderstorm by Maria Mathis
Tomorrow is Sunday by Dhimitri James Vasili
Torpedo Run by Farrin Rosenthal
Touch Point by Wayne Christensen
Touch Red by Michaela Zannou
Train Buddies by Paolo Chianta
Treading Lava by Paul Frank
Trigger Happy Abbey by Zach McCartney
Trokita by Bernardo Duran Jr.
Trouble Will Find Me by Colin Moore
Turn A Blind Eye by Edward Leech
Twilight Dove by Francisco Bongarzone
Ubiquitous by Lexis Hooton
Under Dark Waters by Jeff Nowak
Under Pressure by Steve Smith
Underdark by Damon Day
Unlocking Freedom’s Door by Kenneth P. Fox
Unrest by Nancy Dillon
Untitled (Elle and Leah) by Tia Matza
Valley of the Shadow by Logan Shaw
Van 59 by Brian Trotter
Vienna Calling by Renate Grassmugg
Viral Solution by Michael Valente
Vultures by Logan Mitev
Water Under The Bridge by April French
Waves by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Weightless by Anna Hooper
Williston by Kishore Kraleti
Winnie & Clyde by Matthew Rafferty
Worse than Terrible by Ralph Waine Hoy
XOVA7 by Quanah Jay Hicks
Youth In Asia by Katie Crone
Pilots
There are 136 pilot quarterfinalists out of a total of 1185.
A Good…Mensch? by Matt Seiiji Ketai
Acheron 2350 by Malachi Watkins
Affaire Classée by Jenna Lafferty
And The Green Grass Grew… by Laura Spaeth
Angela by Levi Dean
Anything to Anywhere by Antonio Gomez & Maria Vazquez
Back Fires by Alex Blumberg
Becoming French by Ashley Serrao
Bedlam by Michael G. Cooney
Best Four Years by Josh Perry
Blind Allegiance by Ebony Gilbert
Blood Money by Sean McGuire
Booked Up by Dani Gomez
Campus Police by Brad Crowe & Cat Youell
Ch*nk in the Armor by Andy M. Jiang
Control C by Andrew Ivimey & Joel Buxton
Cult of Y by Ralph Waine Hoy
Dark Horizons by Kirk Kirkland
Dead Season by Arin Leviti
Diamond, Texas by Sean Davis
Disordered by Parrish Hurley
Dueling Signs by Jodi Dennithorne
Easy Go by Jay Adams
Esperanza’s World: (AKA I don’t have time to be no stinkin’ hero) by Sergio Cervantes
Ever Your Mozart by Lily McLeod
Experts by Maggie Hart
Fool by David Hoffman
Frank by Nathan Cabaniss
Free Spirits by Katharine Densmore
Fuzzville by Bill Simmons
Gaby Guffner: Destroyer of Worlds by Matthew Manson
Gemstone Heroes by John Vogel
Girl in a Box by Megan McKenzie
Give it to Guerrero by Ralph Waine Hoy
Give Up! by Rachel Robyn Wagner
Gone Hollywood by Sara Hallowell
Good People by Katie Anthony
Grain of Salt by Ligia Maria Storrs Rojas & Justin Storrs
Greek Love by Lindsey Button
Handyman by Mark Alexander Herz & Bart Voitila
Heir Apparent by Yellowlees Douglas
Henry & Henrietta by Thomas Kivney
Holy Adolescence by Nicholas Dragonetti
HONK! by M. Emmanuel Zammit
I Know I’m Funny by Erika Wester
Inventing Jo by Morgan Nikola-Wren
Jane by Niva Dorell
Jormungandr by Christopher Maudsley
Keats by Robert Latham Brown
Kiki’s Kingdom by M.M. Kagan
Kurds of Nashville by Peter Andrews
L Ella by Gary St. Martin
Lionheart by Frances Flannery
Logos by Alexander Blum
Logos by John Bister
Looking Down by Adi Blotman
Lucky Debonair by Mark McDonald
Lunaris by Daniel Parra
Mad Nellie by Bridget Visser
Meet the Bloomfelds by Lexi Savoy
Merryweather Gulch by Fergus Sweeney & Manfred Kuegel
Mike Goes Fishing by Wayne Gibson
Mimic by Ruby Wyler
Miss America by Adi Blotman
Mobnoxious by Frank Vespe
Monster Carnival by Alia Zeid
Mushroom: First Contact by Charles Saunders
#nofilter by Jesse Klein
Nomad by Gonçalo Oliveira
One by B. E. Marvis & Anne Estrada
One Step at a Time by Victoria Livingstone
Our Lady of Hollywood and Vine by Jacqi Bowe
Pavlov’s Cat by Greg Bell
Perverse by Caroline Hayes
Players by Julie Sharbutt
Poor Old Bobby Witherspoon by Luke Canavan
Ravello by Koohzad Karimi
Re-Existence by J.J. Hillard
Ren-Fair by Jesse Mattson & Sam Mattson
Ruination by Dawson Doupe & Ryder Doupe & Todd Tapper
Santa Muerte by Douglas Stark
Saving Sid by Tony Green
Scarlem by Tony Faria
SCOTUS by Alan Jenkins
Sex and Soul by Schirete Zick
Sirgrus Blackmane Demihuman Gumshoe by William Schlichter
Sister by Alex Blumberg
St. Judy by Shelly Lipkin & Suzanne Fagan & Kathy Fagan & John Fagan
Star Student by Chadd Alciati
Staring Into Space by Tim Cox
State of Vigilance by Tom Holowach
Supermundane by Matteo Mascanzoni
Tennessee Forever by Dewayne Goforth
The 99 Club by Michael Caggiano
The Beer House by Kate Mellors
The Big W by Laurel Anne Stern-Nicholson
The Conquest by Sarah Zeiser
The Eighth Wonder by Denise Devoy & Di Larowska
The Empire Must Fall: The Sun Sets on the Empire by Sofya Lomaeva
The Examiner by Paul Coletti
The Feed by Thu-Huong Ha
The Fishbowl Effect by Megan Plank
The Formula by Justin Ray Embrey
The Golden Pearl by Alexandra Joyce
The Half Man by Sean Azze
The Khans by Omid Niliaram
The Last Nerve by Aashka Pandya
The Long Game by Jeremy Bradford
The Mission by Mark E Hayes & Gabriele S Hayes
The Night Artist by Yellowlees Douglas
The Off-Seasoners by Olivia Haller
The Palace by David Oliver Avruch
The Partisan by Jessica Romagnoli
The Unliving by Andrew Cohen & Paul Romano
The Venue by Jill Pauletich Ragan
The VHS Society by Adam McCabe
The Weight by Dylan James
The White Room by Abhi Kumar
Theme Park Earth – Blue Sky by Anastasia Warmuth
Totalicracy by Jean-Philippe Beaumont
Umzabalazo by Brian Flaccus
Uncle Bike by Joslyn C. Jensen
Violet’s New Life by Kim Ray
Virtual Magick by AS Templeton
Vultures by Logan Mitev
WatchMe by Meegan May
Weeki Watchee Enchanted Spring by Billie Speer
Wetlands by Tyler Danna
Who Done It by Jessica Miller
Wilderness by Michael Greenwald
Wolf Spell by Aaron Fitzgerald
Worse Than Terrible by Ralph Waine Hoy
Yemma by Nicole Ballivian
Young Country by Ariana Keswani McGinn
Shorts
There are 96 short quarterfinalists out of a total of 734.
A Short Story About Toughness by Sara Relli
A Simple Thank You by Jamie Stanley
A Soldier’s Horror by Deneuve Brutus
A Tale of Companionship by Sascha Nastasi & Regina Rosenfeld
Alex’s Mirror by JR Friend
Asuncion by Francisco Mendez & Antonio Asencio
Athena and the Axe by Patrick Seda
B.I.A.S. by David Angelelli
Ballad of the Cuckoos by John Biscello
Blink by Ira Livingston, IV
Brizo by Jessie Klearman
Buried by Larry J. Allen, Jr.
By Some Chance by Vincent Marano
Chalonot by Emma Starer Gross & D.A. Stern
Confabulation by Matt Brutsch
Coupled Unconsciousness by Stephanie Mathews
Danville by Patrick Deninger
Dark Forest by Nakreetipe Sudhisanronakorn
Dear Mae! by Sanju S Jacob
Director’s Playbook by Nino Aldi
Disembodied Voice with a Familiar Face by Chris Desiderio
Earth to Unknown by Neil Murphy
Ebb & Flow by Nay Tabbara
Everyone Wants A Doorman by Simone Johnson
Exile by Renan Amaral
Family Affair by Ernest Anemone
Fence Sitter by Liz Galalis
Forget Me Not by Kiriakos Kanellos
Galatea’s Dream by Elizabeth V. Newman
Genre Flick by Thom Hilton
Hangman by Sarah Rodenbaugh & Sascha Alexander & Dayna Schaaf
Happy Laundry by Kahyun Kim
Hearsay by Cindy Heath
Hidden Dolor by Rebecca Lejić-Tiernan
Hitchhiker by Samantha Walker
Honey Cake by Odette Zakarian
Horror Kid by Billy McAfee
I Hope This Email Finds You Well by Quinton Buxton
Incubus by Tito Fernandes
Iridescence by Jeremy Hsing
Leopard by Dan Abramovici
Love’s Labors Lost? by Stanley B. Eisenhammer
Maria Manananggal by Darlene Sharmaine Dy
May Tomorrow Never Come by Fernando Hart
Mr Perfect by Desi Lyon
My Cup Is Nearly Empty by Dillan Ostrom
No Power, Great Responsibility by Natasha Gregg
Old Dog by Nick Josten
Out for a Run by Todd Waring
Patrol by Rick Rowley
People in A Box by Megan R. Fitzgerald
Rare as Red Hair by Robbie Robertson
Reaper by Isiah Hale
Room by Laura Quigley
Santa’s Lot by Alison Parker
Satellite by John T. Holowach & Michael Robert Liska
Shadow by Helen Foster
She Coming Back by Jason Lindsay
Shooting Blanks by Olivia Rose
Silence by Isiah Hale
Sketches Beyond Paper by Rishaad Mollah
Sow by Esteban Powell
Starch by Ajai Vishwanath
Strange Fruit by Deidre Staples
Summer Solstice Sunset by Jen Stoughton
Surrender Dorothy by Cristine Chambers
Switch by Sara Robin
Synastry by Griffin Holmes
Tamarin by Pollyanna Stevens
Tammy’s Replacement by Paul Rowe
The 7 by Dana Stein
The Balloon by Bryan Campbell
The Black Pill by Kumyl Saied
The Cat by Drew Allen
The Corner Plot by Ezra Lerner
The End of Us by Lorena Chiles
The Jetty by Kevin Mack
The Ledge by Joel Karlinsky
The Silent Recital by Lia Wu
The Tortoise by Matthew Neff
The Very Best of the Voices in My Head by Bobbi Broome
Thin Walls by Robert Armanyous
Thingamajigs by A. S. Templeton
This Dance Called Life by Stan Siwik
this weary flesh by Jarrod Smith
Through the Hole by Mel Sangyi Zhao
To A Far More Lovely Girl by Louis James Hollander
Two Fishermen by Rick Whelan
Undercover Bitch by Jocelyne Kuhn
Waiting for Schrödinger by Kevin Hanna
Washing the Body by Peter Andrews
Waverley by Peter Andrews
Welcome To The Stage… by Kyle Casey Chu & Roisin Isner
Wine. by Grace Enock
Work Me Lord by Mary Lee Foster
You’ve Never F**ked Anyone With Beer Goggles by Kevin Sundstrom
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