Back to blog

2015 Feature Screenplay Quarter Finalists

This year, we set a new record of 4494 feature screenplay submissions. Approximately five percent of those scripts have been selected to advance in the...

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog·BlueCat·

This year, we set a new record of

4494 feature screenplay submissions.

Approximately five percent of those scripts

have been selected

to advance in the competition.

Congratulations to the Quarter Finalists!

A Guy Walks Into A Bar by Linnea Gelland

A Kensington Slattern by Peter Rennie

A Lost Tribe in Amsterdam by Ian Sax

A Meeting in Seville by Paul Mendelson

A Mischief of Rats by Franklin Friedlander

A Posthumous Performance by Drew Wagner

A Small, Tiny, Practically Insignificant Case of Demon Possession by Shannon Pestock

A-L-L by Robert Holt, M.D.

Adventure Has A Name by Justin Piasecki

Affirmation by Kyle Lavore

Agony by Walter Haley

Alien Rendezvous by Darlene Inkster

Almost Perfect by J. Sol

Amygdala by Moushumi Angre

An American in Space by Joe MacGregor

Andy The Android by Kevin Garcia

Angel of Mercy by Josephine Agricola

Antebellum by Kory Olson

Apathetic Death by Joanne Casey

Assisted Dying by Nick Chianese

At the Devil’s Door by Neal Tyler & Todd Henderson

Bani’s Lullaby by Shruti Swaminathan

Behind The Glass by Steven Fait

Between the Road and Charlie Macklin by Rod Thompson

Bison Man by Michael Rhodes

Black Hickory by Ronald L. Ecker & Evan M. Pinchuk

Black Santa by Darren Dillman

Broken Futures by Chris Welsh

Brooklyn Graffiti by Javier Ortiz

Brother Tommy by Peter Wittenberg

Bull Comb Blues by David Warnock

But Thinking Makes it So by Johnny Coffeen

Butter Side Up by Kitty Percy

Chamelon by Paula Lewis

Charon’s Pass by Robert Bridge

Children of the Fire by Eric Hueber

Chiriaco Summit by Ryan Vaughn

Christopher Robin by Scott Alex Rudolph

Cooties by Frank Longo

Crazy About You by Deana Costner

Cryogenesis by Todd Baker

Dare County by Irwin Greenstein

David King Of Promise by Sloan Inns & Jenna Inns

Days of Ignorance by M. Husnu Ozkurt

Dead Tired by Geoffrey Uloth

Deadly Views by Bill Johnston

Deserter by Conall Pendergast & Hugh Gibson

Disposessed by George Billard

Dolly’s Tamales by Paula Kay Hornick

Don’t Mess with Mr. Meow Meow by Robert Broderick

Dream Weaver by Greg Daubenspeck

Dumb It Down by Paul G. O’Malley

Dwayne and Connor’s 10th Grade Mixtape by Mercedes Brazier-Thurman

E.R. by Eleonore Gachet

Elephant Milk by Diane Sherry Case

End of Line by Paul Hunt

Ever After by Adam McCulloch

Eye See You by Stephen Arthur Cardinal

Far From Cool by Augustus Rose

Finding Joy by Virginia Lee Brucker

Footsteps Of My Father by Erik V Wolter

For One Night Only by Peter Schmidt

Forms Of Life by Evan McNary

40 Something Love by Declan Butvick

4 Corners by David Morring

Franz Ferdinand Must Die by Katharine O’Brien

Frog’s Born by Zoe Hatfield

Front Runner by Benjamin Tyler

Full Court Press by Debra Chesley

Full English by Jemma Walton

Ganbaru by Todd Maetani

Garden on the Edge of the World by Willie Hynd

George! by Leonardo Noboru de Lima

Gifted by Angelina Karpovich

Gioacchino Lupara by Thomas Ascenzi

Girls in White by Chloe Sabbs

God Help Us by Michael Ball

God Of Your Fathers by Jordan Kalms

Godmother by Karen Willoughby

Golgotha by David Turkel

Good Enough by Susan Damato & Mary Navarra

Graves of Lesser Men by Conor King Devitt

Grief by Cihan Narin

Half Of Me by Sage Wells

Happy Birthday, Ray! by Kathryne Isabelle Easton

Herland by Derek J. Pastuszek

Hindsight by Janice Hallett

Hinterland by Ewen Glasss

History of Fire by Michael Whitton & James Hamilton James

Holy New York and the Inner Moonlight by Sonya Goddy & Claire Lowery

Hooked by Allen Wolf

Hopes Twenty by Craig A Rutherford & Lee Betteridge

Hunter Lake by J. Holtham

i by Alex Rollins Berg

If I Were You by Allison Buckmelter & Nicolas Buckmelter

In Visible Ink by Emily L. Manthei

Intrepid by Ben Warner

James Burns by Kenneth Molloy, Jr.

Jaya by Puja Maewal

Kerry Dunbar by Evan Laughlin

Kevin by Chas Fisher

Kill Shelter by R. J. Daniel Hanna

Kings Of Hot Springs by Dana Deree

Last Twist At The Blue Moon Hotel by Duncan Hammond

Lead Balloon: The Janet Hirsch Story by Adam Rose

Lifers by Phil Burdette

Lilly Loves Phoenix by Maarit Nissilä

Marilyn by Peggy Bruen

Medal of Honor by Col Duke Mulligan

Memories by Marnie Mitchell-Lister

Method by Laurie Nunn

Milk Thistle by Adrian Ferrara & Gavin Ferrara

Minyan by Adam Ansell

Montage by Michael F. Brown

Motel by April Phillips

Mouth by Kimi Howl Lee

Natalia by Pauline Mark

New York is a Friendly Town by Chad Schneider

1947 by Summer Pervez

Ninety Proof by Nick Lentz

Og’s Utopia by Sam Mossler

Oh Mother by Russell Davis & Michael Bernieri

One Arabian Night by Maha Sidaoui

Overkill by Christian J. Hearn

Paralysis by Dan Cassell

Past Tense by Linda Ujifusa

Patchwork by A.E. Keener

Pedro by Amelia Phillips

Perspektive by Michael Deuschel

Piano Player by Colin Larkin

Pie In The Sky by Gary Wells

Pigalle by Lizzie Mason

Plague Angel by David Uloth

Plan C by P. Patrick Hogan & Steve Loh

Promises by Trevor Mayes

Red Sky by Robert Brody

Redemptive Opportunities by Dorothy Pecoraro Bertram

Redial by Dominic Reynolds & John Reynolds

Romek by Matthew Kic

Run! by Anne Katherine

S.L.A.S.H. by Leif Johnson

Safe by Sedona Feretto

Sailfish by Kyle Portbury & Toby Osborne

Santa Boy by Gary Geyer

Saving Shakespeare by Isabel Bacigalupo

Sawbuck by Mark Strauss

Scatter by Ed Cripps

Scriptures and Cigarettes by Joseph O’Driscoll

Selling Water by the River by James Connelly & Justin LaForge

Semmelweis by Keith Tomlinson

Sex Monsoon by Anna Maganini

Sexton by Elizabeth Oyebode

Sibling Rivalry by Ehren Hotchkiss & Brian Hotchkiss

Signs, Songs & Optimism by Sharen Wood

Simon Says by Keryl Brown

Sins of a Super Hero by Dennis Douda

Sky Thief by Jamie Barthol

Slave by Alejandro Sesma

So Now What? by Connie Weidel

Social Chameleon by Alexandra Weir

Speed by Ryan Jennifer

Squirt by Randy Kaplan & Scott Bernstein

Stewardess by Teresa Sullivan

Storm House by Mark Hibbett

Strategem by Kieron Holland & Antaine Furlong

Student Teacher by Molly Gardner

Sweet Souls Atrocious by Tracey Bradley

Taking the Toll – The Life and Life of Gilbert Booth by Theodore Schaefer & Patrick Lawler

Talk Show Host by Jake Blandford

Tango with Solitude by Maria Hinterkoerner

Tanks by Col. Duke Mulligan

Tansen by Aarthi Ramanathan

Ted Will Return Shortly by Dan Ochwat

The Adoration of Elliot Nightingale by Ellen Wittlinger

The Adventures of Vagabond & Vixen by Jeff Rohrick

The Anxieties of Peter Wilhelm by Palmer Holton

The Archivist by Greg Cohen

The Aryan Bookstore by Harold Zellman & Shelley Zellman

The Ballad of Wilbur Wright by Stephen Woodward

The Blue Saint’s Legend by Fabio A. Ortega

The Broken Grave by Kevin McGee

The Camera Man by Robert Samuelson

The Candy Cane Soldier by Evan Cooper & Brodie Cooper

The Cedars of Lebanon by Charlotte Gajek

The Celestial by Barry Brennessel

The City of Artists by Eurydice Da Silva

The Clincher by Thomas J. Glynn & Thomas Stanton

The Complex by Alison Star Locke

The Consultant by David Fairhurst

The Day We Tried to Live by Sergio Padilla

The Dead House by Shannon Pestock

The Floor is Lava by Thomas Nesti

The German Soldier by Carl Caulfield

The Ghost by David Bullock

The Ghost Army by Matthew Gordon Leslie & Stephen J. Smith

The Good Buy by Szilvia Borsan

The Key by Greg Price

The Lady Be Good by Jeff Toulouse

The Lawn Girl Diaries by Deirdre Morales

The Little Traveler by Wayne Bibee

The Making of Harriet T. by Yhane Smith

The McKenzie Friend by Paul Mendelson

The Memory Man by David Bugay

The Ostrich Farm by Tyler Tice

The Pain Man by Benjamin T. Busfield MD

The Pits by Paola Andrea Ariza

The Prodigy by Tommy Trull

The Projectionist by Alison Star Locke

The Rim of the World by Bettina Moss

The Savage Land by Jesus Celaya

The Second Coming by Sheryl Parrigan

The Secrets of Belford by Taylor Gillen

The Sleeping House by Suzanne Griffin

The Spoils of Sanctuary by Hallie Tassin

The Tank by Merrit Schmidt

The Tenant by Janet J. Lawler

The Trienniel by R. Frederick Ehrenreich

The Tunnel by Diana Westfall

The Women Here Are Giants by Al Topich

They Know Not With Whom by F. Aaron Franklin

This Old Man by Nicholas Oktaras

ThisAbility by Don Fried & Mike Fuhrmann

Tiny by Kendell Courtney Klein

Too Cool For School by Nicholas Martin Johnson

Trading Penance by Timothy D. Kanieski

Tragic Orgy by Aaron Easterbrooks

Triskaidekaphobia by Brian Padian

Twains, Trains And Riverboats: The Absolutely True Story of How Mark Twain Saved America by Kevin Cleary & Patti Vasquez

Want by Kati Royle

War Woman by Steven L. Fournier

Warsaw by Kimberly Kaplan

Way Up High by Dominic Reynolds

We Were Just Kids by Danielle Bonder

What’s So Funny by Tim Chan

White Gold by Rebecca Handley

White Label by Greg Gilpatrick

Wildlands by Alan J. Adler

Worm Head by Jonathan Crow

Worry Dolls by Robert Wolfe Dunn & Ryan Trevino

Wrong Blonde by Anthony Egan

Yes, Virginia by Ben Feuer

Competition Results Announcement Schedule:

  • Semi-Finalists will be announced March 15th, 2015.

  • Shorts Finalists will be announced April 4th, 2015.

  • Feature Finalists will be announced April 6th, 2015.

  • Joplin Award will be announced April 7th, 2015.

  • Cordelia Award will be announced April 8th, 2015

  • The Shorts Screenplay Winner will be announced April 9th, 2015.

  • The Feature Screenplay Winner will be announced April 10th, 2015.

2015 RULES AND GUIDELINES

Thanks to everyone who submitted to BlueCat, we were blown away by the response this year and grateful for all your hard work!

0 Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!

Leave a Comment

Never displayed publicly
Optional

Keep Reading

Related Posts

2026 BlueCat Winners

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog

2026 BlueCat Winners

We are proud to announce the 2026 Winners of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition! Our Feature Winner and Short Winner will each receive a $3,000 prize, while...

BlueCat·
2026 BlueCat Finalists

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog

2026 BlueCat Finalists

We are proud to announce the 2026 Finalists for features and shorts! Congratulations to our Finalists and thank you to all who submitted! The Winners will be...

BlueCat·
Read the 2026 Oscar Screenplays

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition Blog

Read the 2026 Oscar Screenplays

Reading a great screenplay can reignite our passion for telling cinematic stories. It can also remind us that the magic of movies is real, and that we can be a...

BlueCat·