BlueCat is proud to announce the 2026 Quarterfinalists for features and shorts!
Congratulations to our Quarterfinalists and a big thank you to all who submitted to the competition.
The Semifinalists will be announced on January 27th.
THE QUARTERFINALISTS
FEATURES
209 features out of 2,715 total feature submissions.
A Good Italian Boy by Julian Moruzzi
A Setter Dog by John C McGrath
Alice by Tylie Cox
All Nazis Die by Nathan Shapiro
All She’s Got by Jonny Diaz & Phil Costa
Allies by Tish Dragonette
American Martyr by Catherine Fraser
And the Table Shall Be Round by David Walter
Antarctic Ring by Lillian Young
Armenian Rhapsody by Tigran Vardanyan
At the Fleetwood by Max Cabot
Attagirl by TK Lawlings & Scott Morse
Bad Betty by Sterling Sulieman
Be With Her by Louisa Danger Rorschach
Benita the Invincible by Terry Lynam
Benito by Chloe Bostian
Beyond Romeo by Aaron Fitzgerald
Black Butterflies by Marylou DiPietro
Blackness of Space, Whiteness of Bones by Melissa L. White
Blank Canvas by Roman Merrick
Blood & Ink by Douglas Smith
Blood Eden by Dan Howell
Blood on Aisle Three by Zach McCartney
Bond by Kevin Cutts
Brains and Grit by John Ravitz
Breakup Artists: The Hipster Henchmen by Patrick Delaney Sperry
Caroline’s Gold by Thomas Zmiarovich
Castle Rising by Roy Marsh
Caterpillar by Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough
Charlie Galore by Paul Smith
Charm Offensive by Jason Collin
Chickantula by Nora Novak
Choices by Laurel Nicholson & Donald Nicholson
Cicada by Bragi Schut
Critter Catcher by Scott Nabat
Cutting Numbers by Morgan Von Ancken
Dairyland by Eric Todd Patton
Dame Boreal by Ian Ebright
Dead Eye Dong by Jimmy Prosser
Death in Reality by Erin Copen Howard
Death in the Family by Benjamin Ingram
Demo Reel by Kelly Tippett
Dinosaur Astronaut by Nicholas J. Benson
Doc Savage: Dark Empire by Marc DeLamater
Doll by Shia Shabazz Smith
Doula by Goldie Jones
Drama King by Chris Stetson
Dry Land by Lee Cart
Durango by Daniel J. Ricottone
Earthly Delights by Evan Michael Goodrich
Evelyn and Eddie by Gary Wallach
Exchange by Robert Hirsch
Falling Up by Stephanie Drapeau
Final Romance for Margaret Fuller by Mark Wildermann
Full Moon by Joseph Robles
Gasping For Air by Adam Castillo
Go for the Five by Tom Lough
Grandmothered by Eric Rich
Gridiron by Jim Endecott
Gulf Of Aden by Steve Garry
Guy Who Just Bought a Boat by Patrick Tierney
Hacked by Jonathan Ruppert & Toby Osborne
Head Down, Chin Up by Ella McKenzie, Mark Stafford
Head Trip by Dawn Cardinale
Higher Education by Brennan Dillon
Hijrah Girls by Alessandra Bautze
Home by Adam El Nabli
How To Fail by Elliott Anderson
Humdrum by Daniela Di Salvo
Hunch by Michael Caisley
I Bit The Nurse by Inna Braude
I’ll Show You Mine by C.H. May
Improvidently Accepted by Erik Louis Smith
In Sync by Dwayne Colbert & Lynze Montreuil
In the Absence Of by Nora Grocha
In The Shadow Of Humanity by Douglas Smith
Interference by Sue Faulkner
It’s Coming on Christmas by Sam Ellis
It’s What You See by Lisa Hickey
Kate by Iain Anderson
Kill The Ump by Hal Ackerman
Late Night Driver by Jay Perry & Shaun Perry
Life as a Mesoplankton by Ariella Stoian
Lion Hide by Ray-Alan Cameron
Lone Pine Mountain Devil, Bitch by Olivier Agostini & Chris Wivell
Lonesome Tonight by Joshua Cannon & Mica Jordan
Long Live by Morgan Greenwood
Louisiana by Hope Perello
Love Sick by Sherrill Schmidt
Man Enough by Andrew Breen
Mansfield by Roger Hawkins
Marcus Reisel is Dead by JP Lake
Masters and Servants by John Enright
Menagerie by Gerald Winter
Middle School Madness by Mary McGloin & Kyle Thornton & Kirk Yang
Mockingwood by Sterling Sulieman
Monochrome by Devin Githara-Pipkin
Mourning After by Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich
Murderer in the Ski Degree by BA Anaclerio
My Fair Drag Queen by Devin Toohey & Brian Whitaker
My Pal Sal by Mike Pace
Never Enough by Rebecca Lafon
Night Shoot by Zoe Reid
No Nails by John Ravitz
Not So Alone by Emma Prescott
Oh, My Leo! by Jeff Naparstek
On The Other Side by Lanre Olabisi
One Out To Midnight by Dale Moore & Becky Baker
Panama Railroad by Noah Price
Peace Hero by Amir Abbasi
Perceval the Fool by Andrew Reuland
Portia’s Penguin by Benita Cullingford
Prince of Straw by Nathan Allen
Prison by Konstantin Selivan
Prowl by Andrew Cardozo
Punjab Express by Pranav Upadhye
Ravine by Mark Kratter
Red Waters by Ben Stalpes
#Redflag by Evan Dorfman
Refraction by Spencer Mead & Trevor March
Riot Grrrls by Jessica Wynn & Jessi Cape
Roderick Hudson by Tom Sime
Role of a Lifetime by Salvatore DeLucia
Romeo’s House by Scott Gabriel & Sofi Marshall
Rowing by Christina Kerr
Sapiens by Ed Wiles
Scene Missing by Jaye Buford Gray
Sea Fever by Richard Guimond
Serial Monogamy by David Rakowiecki
Seville by Paul A Mendelson
Short Time by Anthony Zonfrelli
Silver Arrows by Kit Cramer & Jonathan Richardson
Skid Row Robin Hood by Nathaniel Bartrum
Slain by Dre Aguirre
SmartPeople by Sean M. Dugan
Smiling Feet by Clark Barclay
Somewhere East of Marfa by Gary L. Baker II
South Wind Come by Ernestina Juarez
Spark by Jonathan Todd Ross
Steal Vengeance by Howard Fridkin
Steel Shutters by Ray Shea
Storied by Mackenzie Sunshine Aliano
Strange, But Perfect by Carlo Lorenzo Garcia
Strangers In The Heartland by Zheng Nathan Nie
Sugar Foot by Steven P. Vargo
Take Revenge On Every Day by Ross Inman
Taos by Elizabeth Eromosele & Nicole Rosario Muller
Ten Good People by Pony Wilson
Texas Jack by Alexander Hendrie
The Blue Cage by James Barr
The Borough’s Feast by RJ Royal
The Christmas Bell by Ruby Fink
The Comeback Kid by Sheala Morrison
The Constant by Tommy Garcia
The Coolest Girls in Glendale by Jacqueline Postajian
The Degenerate by Dominic Graham
The Delinquent by Jay Hannah
The Fall of Brian by Maxine Mattana
The First Musketeer by David A Smullen
The First Oath by Terek M. Young
The Fisher Queen by Ellen Wehle
The Flickering by Mike Pace
The Flying Lessons by Raymond Gaston
The Giant of Guadarrama by Alia Zeid
The Gospels by Soneil Inayat
The Guessing Game by Johnny Kurtzuba
The Headmaster by Felix McEnroy
The Inference Squad by Scott Tomorelli
The Last Tree by Ben Racicot
The Learning Machine by Brett Pepper
The Love Ledger by Michael Taylor
The Loving Dead by Jeremy Coleman
The Man Who Came From The River by Kieran O’Dea & Brennan O’Dea
The Paper Crane by Alexis Ann Croyle
The Piece by Nikki Teeuw
The Pizza Boy by Alex Alred
The Realtor by Jack Newsome
The Second Best Man by Darrin Rose
The Skim by Bill Wyza
The Soul Singer by Jeffrey C Wray
The Sound Of River by Nitin Adsul
The Umbrella Guy by Adam Westervelt
The White House in the Woods by Richard Cullen
There She Is by Elizabeth Paige
Time Of My Life by Odynok X.
Tinsel and Tango by Anna Ebell
To The Moon And Back by Malcolm Earl Robinson
Toad Beach by Josh Miller
Touching Untouchable by Bryan Aran
24 Hours From Tulsa by Louisa Danger Rorschach
Two Gentlemen of the 25th Precinct by David S. Newton
2 Ways of the Gun by Terri Barclay Spaugh
Undone by Renji Philip
Unfinished Business by Kevin Wilson
Unintended by Marcos Gallegos
United We Stand by Zephyr Quintain
Vena Sewn In by Ann Marie Martin
Vesta and Tilly Climb a Mountain by Wendy Dann
Victor by Luke Wronski
Warm-Blooded by Cleo Handler
Weight by Hogan Hiatt
Welcome to America by Weiyang Liu
What Water Stains the Innocent by Eric Cook
Wildcats by Judith C Posey
With Hidden Noise by Brent Stratton
Y’all Come Back Now by Dan DeLuise & Maddie Lasser
Yarilka Shadow Walker by Douglas Smith
You Again by Ravi Chaganty
Zoophobia by Mary L Ellevold
SHORTS
105 shorts out of 1,091 total short submissions.
A Far More Lovely Girl by Jim Hollnder
Alive by Jamie Bishop
Alone by Carolina Gimenez
Armistice by RJ Dale
Augusta by Nathan Blankenship
Awake by Julia Bottarelli
Be My Baby by Lynda Hilliker
Behind the Yellow Line by Faith Nolan
Brigade by Calum Rhys
Brilliant Acts: Under The Veil by Cole S. Sexton
Can You Stand the Rain? by Pamela Faulkenberry-Fowlkes
Car Salesmen by Matt Hill
Castaway by Nathan L. Marquez
Catch Me Offline by Cleveen Dominguez
Coffin Up by Nadine Wilson
Cut Flowers by Dana Wall
Doll by Shia Shabazz Smith
Dream State by Jolan Baucum Bastien
Enemy of Death by Nikki Berkhof
Family Touch by Stephanie Lee
Fathomless by Siobhán Donnellan
Frank by Abi Polinsky
Germaphobe In a Sex Club by Caitlin Cronenberg & Jessica Ennis
Ghomeeda by Aya Mheidly
Girls Will Be Girls by Isabel Schnall
Glove by Ryan Harewood
Heart and Hell by Christian Zeitner
Heaven’s Interviews by Eric Olson
Home by Nadine Wilson
Homecoming by Molly Wise
How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found by Oren Peleg
Hypothetically Speaking by Alex Tomić
If Paige Asks by Sydne Horton
If You Go by P.J. Palmer
In Broad Daylight by Sandy Snow
Induction by Eric Jason Meisner
Isle of Plastica by Drina Connors Kay
Jean by Lola Arenas
Job Interview by Ravi Chaganty
Just For Fun: A Horror Lover’s Fanzine by Susan Eileen Jizba
Last Call by Mike Gallagher
Let me run by Benjamin Samuel
Life Like a Fair by Sandra J Cropsey
Lingering Light by Anthony Campanella
Loteria by Joel Ojeda
Mailbox Swag by David G.Hatton
Male Point of View by Roisin Isner & Kyle Casey Chu
Maybe One Day by Mario Ghabali
Memry Lane by Sarah Robertson
Milk Teeth by Melis Aker
Mouthpiece by Christian D.K. Long
‘Murican Dream by Claudia Barcenas
Negus by Theodore Lowe
Nightswimming by Julie Fergus
North by Ness Wilson
Nude by Vitoria Hronopoulos
October 32nd by Brenna Kwon
Of Summer Storms & Salt by Jessica L. Folk
Old Kills by Manuel Medina
On The Way To Goodbye by Jax Bakewell
Our Last Morning by V.P. Evans
Pacific Pilgrimage by Carly Keyes
Passion Play by Tom Hughes
Play On by Nikolay Moss
Quiet, Please by Jeanine Barone
Rainbow Exodus by Jason Marks
Repercussions by Oscar J Montion
Roommates of the Silence by Victor Atkins
Saturday Girl by Clare Perry
Say It With Music by Christopher James Culberson
Shadows of Eve by Thomas Tierney
She’s All Mine by Jacqueline Dolisi
Sicko by Andrew Essig & Matthew Winters
Sincerely Departed by Rebecca Leigh
Single Seniors at the Sci-Fi Fantasy Book Club by Jennifer Chase
Smokeshow by Chloe Leigh King
Soft Bones by Madeline Rose Finkel
Special by J. Treacy Cole
Stroke of Luck by Montgomery Burt
The “Seed” Between Worlds And Stars by Celeste Escalera
The 50th Way to Use a Feather by Bennett Ryals
The Bait by Nalina Pramod Kizhakkekkara Vadakkoot
The Creator by Alina Raykhman
The Devil’s Prius by Michael Cadwallader
The Fiddler’s Stroke by Braden Barton
The Gap by Olivia Dal Pra
The Hatch by Ed Vela
The Last Stop by Jason Smith
The Old Timers And The Foul Ball by Christopher Loveland
The Quiet Room by Danny “D.T.” Yang
The Speech by Josh Miller
The Walkers by Stephen Motta
Three Ice Cubes by Dana Wall
Tingle In The Outer Rim by John Clayton Wise
To Be A Man by Robbie Robertson
Tomorrow by Julian Santos
Troubador’s Last Note by Michael J Volpe
Tudor Core by Ella Gonzales
Unexpecting by Kenneth McClintock
Vagabond Home by Andrew M Jackson
What Mom Wanted by Kyle Rezzarday
World With No Bargains by William Mariano
Writer’s Block by Andrew Newall
Zeenat And The Men Who Give Her Pause by Richa Rudola
Zei Gezunt by Ilana Grollman
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