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
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