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2025 BlueCat Semifinalists

We are proud to announce the 2025 BlueCat SEMIFINALISTS for features and shorts!

Congratulations! And thank you to all who submitted!

Our finalists will be announced on March 31st. 

 

THE SEMIFINALISTS 

 

FEATURES

42 features out of 1,862 submissions 

112 In The Shade by Brandon Soderberg

A Christmas Tale by Giovanni D’Amaro

Afterbirth by Rob Napoletani

Assistants by Nick Giedris

Brother by Justin Rossbacher

Call of the Void by Rebecca Moretti

Clay by Phil Blake

Confessions of a Lab Rat by Erin McMullen & Roy McMullen

Crab by Abi Perpall

Ergo Sum by Anthony Harris

Ghosting by Einar Thor

Gloom and Boom! by Omid Niliaram

How To Have Sex On Antidepressants by Mrittika Sarin

Hushville by Jeff Ellis

I’m Begging You to Date Me by Fiona Kida

Last Chance Saloon by Paul Allen

Malka, Then And Now by Sandhya Hermon

Neverland by Cody Beavers

Poems of Yore by Quanah Jay Hicks

Power Passports by Iolanda Tursi

Pyramid Point by Chris Cassingham

Remains by Mathew David Hart & Gilad Barak & Boaz Salomon

Restoration by Don Bapst & Braden Brickner

Saeed by Ivan Mooh Mooh

Sandy Gray by Teddy Cecil

Santa Fe by Brandon Shypkowski

Semblance by Scott Hoops

Sila by Mashael Alqahtani

Silent Night – Un Holy Night by Lowell Thomas

Slug Fest by Mao Natori

Tee Tee Boy by Steven Kreager

The Cellmate Vanishes by Jim Griffin

The Daring Escape Of El Ingeniosa Hidalgo Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra by Miguel Peed

The Good Life by Elâ Sophia

The Last Guardian of Anshan by Vladimir Vassilenko

The Mask of the Dragonfly by Kai David

The Murder of Wynstan Daly by Jessica Xu

The Omega Cross by Zephyr Quintain

The Player King by Matt Doherty & Mike Peebler

The Quiet Ones by Max Whitney

Three Souls by Roger Hart

Yahoo Boy by Wendy J. Bednarz

 

SHORTS

36 shorts out of 785 submissions

A Good Friday by Vilsoni Hereniko

A-Frame by Marcus Baker

Behind the Mask by Catherine Andre

Better Now by Cindy Yang

Chicken Skin by Julia Kupiec

Clatterbridge by Patrick Crellin & Bethany White

Diwata by Shea Formanes

Dogged by January Wiryawan

Evil for Evil by Leah Saint Marie

Fatal System Error by Martin Molpeceres

Genus by Andrew W. Chan

Ghost Spots by Carmen Mickelson

Hummer by Chloe Kekovic

I Swear to God by Hunter Davis

I Want You To Have Richard by Molly Stark-Ragsdale

Karina by Carmen Mickelson

Magic by Louise C Galizia

Mar by Xochitl Rios-Ellis

Mark of the Ghoul by Rhituparna

Meaning by Michelle Hickey

Mine To Keep by Alia Zeid

Mom and Dad by Cambria Denim

RE by Wendy Bird Womack

Santoku by Alexandra Lee

Sheigets by Joey Schweitzer

Shoo-In by Auden Lincoln-Vogel

The Beach Of Stones by William Armstrong

The Bloody History of Chop Suey by Waley Wang

The Brave Ones by Josh Mann

The Country They Call Life by Grace Sims

The Last Day of July by Xueni Yang

The Scream of the Butterfly by Anjini Taneja Azhar & Ariya Akhavan

The Suicide of Thomas Mary McKee by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Twin Town by Shan Christopher Ogilvie

Unknown Face by Jen Heck

Zero Emissions by Andrew Gallagher