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2010 Joplin Award Winner Maurizio Marmorstein

2010 Joplin Award Winner Maurizio Marmorstein

by | Oct 4, 2010

When did you start writing screenplays? Why? A friend of mine was writing a play while I was working on my Master’s thesis in Florence, Italy in the mid ’70s. What he was doing seemed like so much more fun, so I put away my thesis and we started constructing a crazy...
2010 Winner Ian Simpson

2010 Winner Ian Simpson

by | Oct 3, 2010

We sat down with Robert Ian Simpson, winner of the 2010 BlueCat Screenplay Competition, and talked to him about his coming-of-age screenplay “Below the Waist.”   Interview #2 with Ian Simpson in 2012   Congratulations on recently being  signed by...
2009 Finalists Peter K. Hassan & Elisabeth Silverman Hassan

2009 Finalists Peter K. Hassan & Elisabeth Silverman Hassan

by | Apr 13, 2010

During Gordy’s last trip to Philadelphia, he reconnected with some finalists from our 2009 competition. Screenwriters Peter K. Hassan and Elisabeth Silverman Hassan put together a table reading of their script, Death and Taxes, with Gordy on hand to watch....
2009 Grand Prize Winner Jerry Mahoney

2009 Grand Prize Winner Jerry Mahoney

by | Oct 4, 2009

Check out this video interview with Jerry Mahoney, winner of the 2009 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. We chatted with him about his winning script and experience with the table read. Also, if you’d like to join our BlueCat Community, make sure to subscribe to our...
2008 Grand Prize Winner Timo E. Peltonen

2008 Grand Prize Winner Timo E. Peltonen

by | Oct 4, 2008

When did you start writing creatively? Oh, I suppose my first creative writings came about when I was seven years old. I drew and wrote comics, nothing fancy, but comics nevertheless. All through primary school I always preferred writing short stories instead of the...