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The BlueCat Tradition: Written Feedback For Every Screenplay
The BlueCat Tradition: Written Feedback For Every ScreenplayIn the spirit of our commitment to the development of screenwriters worldwide, the BlueCat Screenplay Competition holds a longstanding tradition of giving written notes to every screenplay submitted. Each...
2014 Call For Feature Screenplays
2014 Call For Feature ScreenplaysThis year, BlueCat is excited to announce we've raised our cash prize for the Winner of the Feature competition to $15,000, with four Finalists receiving $2500 each. All entrants who submit a feature screenplay will receive TWO...
Top 5 Structurally Innovative Films
Top 5 Structurally Innovative FilmsThere is nothing wrong with straight-forward, strictly linear storytelling, of course; it is the most-often used technique because it works. But there is some benefit in having other techniques at your disposal. As long as you're...
Alan Wenkus and Leigh Savidge: Going from BlueCat to Universal
Alan Wenkus and Leigh Savidge: Going from BlueCat to UniversalI am sure that most of you have heard the buzz surrounding an upcoming film, “Straight Outta Compton,” which is a biopic on N.W.A., a hiphop/rap group made up of Eazy E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre. What you may...
Best International Screenplay Call for Entries 2014
Best International Screenplay Call for Entries2014 Joplin AwardBest International ScreenplayCall For Entries The BlueCat Screenplay Competition remains committed to the development of screenwriters worldwide.In this spirit, BlueCat Competition gives the Joplin...
Top 5 Screenwriting Lessons From Star Trek Into Darkness
Top 5 Screenwriting Lessons From Star Trek Into DarknessJohn Updike’s first rule when reviewing novels was: “Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.” This is as good a rule for assessing films as...
5 Short Films That Helped Launch Careers
Shorts are to filmmakers what aluminum cans are to would-be assassins: a way to shoot without ending up in prison. It is, after all, much easier to legally attain a few thousand dollars than a few million, and when you’ve got a crew of five and a borrowed camera, a...
5 Storytelling Flaws in The Great Gatsby
I haven’t read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby since I was in the ninth grade, twenty years ago now, but I do remember it being a quick read; at fifty thousand words, an average reader can go cover to cover in little more than four hours. Watching the most...
2014 Best UK Screenplay Award Call For Entries
Best UK Screenplay Award Call For Entries 2014The Cordelia AwardBest UK ScreenplayCall For EntriesThe BlueCat Screenplay Competition remains committed to the development of screenwriters worldwide.In this spirit, BlueCat Competition gives the Cordelia Award to the...
Now Accepting Short Screenplays Announcement
Now Accepting Short Screenplays AnnouncementIt's Official!We are accepting Short Screenplays in the 2014 Competition. This year, BlueCat will accept short screenplays and establish one of the largest cash prizes in the world for a short screenplay...
Top 5 Silent Sequences in Film #BlueCatBlog
Theater has dialogue, novels have the internal lives of characters, and movies have dynamic visuals. There is, of course, overlap. Many films are driven by dialogue, as are many novels, and the visuals in a Robert Wilson operetta are more important than mere words....
2014 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Call For Entries
2014 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Call For EntriesThis year, BlueCat establishes one of the largest cash prizes in the world for a Short Screenplay, with a Grand prize of $10,000, along with an increase in our Feature prize to $15,000.Students will be eligible to...
Four Screenwriting Lessons We Can Learn from Iron Man 3
I don’t usually like to go to movies on their opening weekend—crowds of more than twenty tend to make me nervous—but it can occasionally be fun to see a big movie in a packed house. You get caught up in the atmosphere of the whole affair and have a better time than...
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BlueCat Alum Young Il Kim Attaches James Ponsoldt to Blacklist Script
The good news keeps coming in for 2006 BlueCat Winner Young Il Kim. It's just been announced that his 2012 Blacklist Script, RODHAM, the script depicting the early years of Hilary Clinton, has attached director, James Ponsoldt, who directed the 2013 Sundance hit, THE...
2013 Feature Winner
2013 Feature WinnerCONGRATULATIONS to the 2013 BLUECAT SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNER!!! Demain, Je Me Tue by Pierre Chance The Winner will receive $10,000. The four remaining Finalists will receive $2000 each. Four Finalists A Cat’s Tale by...
2013 Semi-Finalists
We are proud to announce the 2013 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalists! A Cat's Tale by Kendal Alexander Whitlock A Long Mile by Graeme RobertsonAfterworldby Stephen KopernikBikini Meat Locker by Simon HewittBlue Pit by Blaine...
How To Win BlueCat by Gordy Hoffman
Are you preparing to send in your screenplay to the BlueCat Screenplay Competition before the deadline? What can you do before you enter to increase your chances of advancing, placing and perhaps winning BlueCat?The first thing you should know is BlueCat is very...
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