2015 Top Ten Percent Feature Screenplays

This year, we set a new record of 4494 feature screenplay submissions.

Approximately ten percent of those scripts have been selected to advance in the competition.

Congratulations to the Top Ten Percent!

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 Shot At The Big Time by Janet van Eeden

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

A Tempered Heart by C. Aaron Wong

A Week in Brazil by John McKenzie

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

Adonis by Phoebe Roberts & Bernie Gabin

Adventure Has A Name by Justin Piasecki

Affirmation by Kyle Lavore

After The Jubilee by Dom McDonald

Agony by Walter Haley

Alien Rendezvous 3-D by Darlene Inkster

Alive by Robert Cochrane

All I Really Want to Do by David L. Hudacek

All Shook Up by Josh Shevill

Almost Perfect by J. Sol

American Monday by Benjamin Fields

Among Savages by Sean Saffari

Amygdala by Moushumi Angre

An American in Space by Joe MacGregor

Andrian The Android by Julie Merrick

Andy The Android by Kevin Garcia

Angel of Mercy by Josephine Agricola

Antebellum by Kory Olson

Apathetic Death by Joanne Casey

Arcadia by Robert Wolfe Dunn & Ryan Trevino

Assisted Dying by Nick Chianese

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

Bani’s Lullaby by Shruti Swaminathan

Bayou Blues by Lisa Jay

Bear River by Joe Amato & Kass Fleisher

Behind The Glass by Steven Fait

Between the Road and Charlie Macklin by Rod Thompson

Beyond a Shadow by Albert Taylor

Big Man With A Shovel by Joe Amato & Kass Fleisher

Bison Man by Michael Rhodes

Bitches be Bitchin’ by Kristina Baker Smith

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

Black Santa by Darren Dillman

Blackout by Angela Banks

Blackout Friday by Brian Gallagher

Blank Youth by Alex Michael Harris

Blue Death by Pamela Kay

Bluebeard by Chelsea Russo

Born-Again Virgins by Stephen Boland

Breaking Enigma by Paul Wonnacott

Broken Futures by Chris Welsh

Broken Play by Will Hammitt

Brooklyn Graffiti by Javier Ortiz

Brother Tommy by Peter Wittenberg, Jr.

Bubblegum by John Schulte & Fred Fox, Jr. & John C. Besmehn

Bull Comb Blues by David Warnock

But Thinking Makes it So by Johnny Coffeen

Butter Side Up by Kitty Percy

Career Day by William Payne

Catching the Westbound by Liam Creighton

Chameleon by Paula Lewis

Charity Case by Kathy Charles

Charon’s Pass by Robert Bridge

Chattanooga by Dan A. R. Kelly

Children of the Fire by Eric Hueber

Chiriaco Summit by Ryan Vaughn

Christopher Robin by Scott Alex Rudolph

Collapse by David Cook

Color Blind by Adrien Epps

Concussed by Joshua Keller Katz

Cooties by Frank Longo

Crash Backwards by Randall W. Hahn

Crazy About You by Deana Costner

Crooked Letter Justice by Krystal Foster

Crossed Wires by Stephen G. Eoannou

Cryogenesis by Todd Baker

Cure by Dimitri Neos

Cypress by Charlie Neubauer

D.T. by Ken Comer

Daddy’s Girl by Kristen Hester

Dare County by Irwin Greenstein

Dark Space by R. Adrian Yarbrough

David King Of Promise by Sloan Inns & Jenna Inns

Days of Ignorance by M. Husnu Ozkurt

Dead Tired by Geoffrey Uloth

Deadly Desire by Joe Stevens

Deadly Views by Bill Johnston

Death Comes Calling by Steve Knowles

Delayed Departure by Andrew Hopkins & Peter Sadler

Deserter by Conall Pendergast & Hugh Gibson

Destination: 1600 by Robert People

Dex & Leon by Justin Green

Digger by Dave Wade

Dispossessed by George Billard

Do Something Elvis by Emily Blickem

Dolly’s Tamales by Paula Kay Hornick

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

Dream Weaver by Greg Daubenspeck

Drinking in New York by Mitchell P. Ganem

Dromenon by Paul Julian

Dropkick Me Jesus by Jared Bailey

Dumb It Down by Paul G. O’Malley

Dwayne and Conner’s 10th Grade Mix-Tape by M. Brazier-Thurman

E.R. by Eleonore Gachet

Ectogenesis by Naz Onuzo

Egregious by Elizabeth Kim

Elephant Milk by Diane Sherry Case

Emerge by Anneli Gelbard & Igor Zor

End of Line by Paul Hunt

Evelyn and Eddie by Gary Wallach

Ever After by Adam McCulloch

Externally Yours by Elizabeth Rogers

Eye See You by Stephen Arthur Cardinal

Fado e Saudade by Ben Hunter

Faith and Destiny by Avi Kadmon

Falling Star by Jonathan Stark

Far From Cool by Augustus Rose

Fate of Adam by Dawn Mecir

Feeling Good by Rachael Swindale

Figment by Michael Soll

Finding Joy by Virginia Lee Brucker

Finding My Own Charlie by Kieron Michael O’Sullivan

Flip Flop by Andrew Schrader & Jordan Harris

Footsteps Of My Father by Erik V Wolter

For One Night Only by Peter Schmidt

Forms Of Life by Evan McNary

4th Floor by Tito Fernandes & David Fernandes

40 Something Love by Declan Butvick

4 Corners by David Morring

Franz Ferdinand Must Die by Katharine O’Brien

Freedom Shuttle by Dan Ochwat

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

Genetic Warrior by Jeremy Rigby

George! by Leonardo Noboru de Lima

Get Happy! by Phil Lowe

Gifted by Angelina Karpovich

Gimme Danger by Sam Hanna

Gioacchino Lupara by Thomas Ascenzi

Girls in White by Chloe Sabbs

Go to Hell by Greg Daubenspeck

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

Gooder: The New Org by Richard Jay Barilla

Grace by Ryan Ellis Boyd

Graves of Lesser Men by Conor King Devitt

Green Tree Summer by David Uloth

Grief by Cihan Narin

Half Of Me by Sage Wells

Happy Birthday, Ray! by Kathryne Isabelle Easton

Hatch by Jeffrey Lee Woods

Herland by Derek J. Pastuszek

Hideout by Aaron Fitzgerald & Aaron Kaufmann

Hindsight by Janice Hallett

Hinterland by Ewen Glass

History of Fire by Michael Whitton & James Hamilton James

Hold This For Me by Marty Michaels

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

Home Again by Patrick Monger

Homegrown by Marcey Lynn Frutchey

Hooked by Allen Wolf

Hope’s Twenty by Craig A Rutherford & Lee Betteridge

Hunt by Matthew James Thompson

Hunter Lake by J. Holtham

i by Alex Rollins Berg

I Called Him Allen by Ted Nash

I Hate Mondays by Farrin A. Rosenthal

I.S.S. by Chase Kantor

Ice Dragon by Paul Bayford

If I Were You by Allison Buckmelter & Nicolas Buckmelter

If, then by Michael Soll

In Love and War by Ken J. Marks & Tony Gerard

In Visible Ink by Emily L. Manthei

Inches by Nick Tingley

Independence Pass by Brian MacEvilly

International Relations by Donald Greig

Into Dust by Daniel Boocock

Intrepid by Ben Warner

Jack 7 Is Offline by Thomas Faustin Huisking

Jackhammer by Kirk Donlan

James Burns by Kenneth Molloy, Jr.

Jaya by Puja Maewal

Jesus – the Right Hand of God by Rev. Anthony J. Mucciolo DD

Kerry Dunbar by Evan Laughlin

Kevin by Chas Fisher

Kill Shelter by R. J. Daniel Hanna

Killers. by F. Aaron Franklin

Kings Of Hot Springs by Dana Deree

Land That We Love by Julian Awoonor Renner

Last Twist At The Blue Moon Hotel by Duncan Hammond

Last Watch by Chris Hager

Lead Balloon: The Janet Hirsch Story by Adam Rose

Lifers by Phil Burdette

Lilly Loves Phoenix by Maarit Nissilä

Lost & Found by J. Curtis Moran

Mabel by Flavia Krause-Jackson

Magennis VC by John Morrison

Major League Spy by Gary M. Krebs

Man of God by Lee Whitten

Marilyn by Peggy Bruen

Marilyn 13 by Jocelyn Osier

Master of Monsters by Daniel Keane & Vincent Kearney

Medal of Honor by Col. Duke Mulligan

Memories by Marnie Mitchell-Lister

Method by Laurie Nunn

Midnight City by Brentt Slabchuck

Milk Thistle by Adrian Ferrara & Gavin Ferrara

Mine is Yours by Ann Hawker

Minyan by Adam Ansell

Money For Nothing by Craig Murray

Monster Hunters by Sandino Moya-Smith

Montage by Michael F. Brown

Monty by Negar & Rocsana Saddigh

Motel by April Phillips

Mother Judgers by Heather Kennedy

Mouth by Kimi Howl Lee

Muse by Mauro Ferritto

My Liam, My Noel by Gerhard Posch

Namaste Mumbai by Beewan Athwal

Natalia by Pauline Mark

New York is a Friendly Town by Chad Schneider

Next in Line by Sam Washington

1947 by Summer Pervez

Ninety Proof by Nick Lentz

Of Horn and Ivory by Jason Gruich & Willard Hipple Jr.

Of Wolves and Men by Robert Dan O´Neill

Og’s Utopia by Sam Mossler

Oh Mother by Russell Davis & Michael Bernieri

Once Upon A Time In The North by T.J. Dawe & Michael Rinaldi

One Arabian Night by Maha Sidaoui

One Breadcrumb at a Time by Barbara Erysian

One Last Day With Dennis Grove by Pogo New

Orion by Thomas Simon

Out of the Woodwork by Terry Hayman

Overkill by Christian J. Hearn

Overlord by Plissken Boon

Panhandle by Ashley M. Donnelly

Paralysis by Dan Cassell

Party Hackers by Matt Byrnes

Past Tense by Linda Ujifusa

Patchwork by A.E. Keener

Pavement by Andy Berlin

Pedro by Amelia Phillips

Persimmon Lane by Judy Nogg

Perspektive by Michael Deuschel

Pest by Wendy Herman

Piano Player by Colin Larkin

Pie In The Sky by Gary Wells

Pigalle by Lizzie Mason

Pillar of Salt by Thomas Pike

Pilli by Manuel S. Ramirez

Pinch The Beast by Shad Connelly

Piss Tank by Kathryn Mockler

Plague Angel by David Uloth

Plan C by P. Patrick Hogan & Steve Loh

Plan Z by James Hoey & Danielle Whitehead

Plastic Makes Perfect by Georgia Kersh

Platypus by Laurie Stiller

Playing House by Daniel R. Solomon

Polarised by Caroline Dean

Prime Evil by Thomas Morley

Promises by Trevor Mayes

Red Sky by Robert Brody

Redemptive Opportunities by Dorothy Pecoraro Bertram

Redial by Dominic Reynolds & John Reynolds

Rendezvous by David Buffum

Revelation by Raul G. de Miguel

Rock Bottom Of Russell Whoa by Matt Byrnes

Rock’n’Rolla A-Hola by Angie Powers

Rocket City by Alex Wroten & Joe Worthen

Romek by Matthew Kic

Ruby Diamond City by Tim Hewitt

Run! by Anne Katherine

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

Safe by Sedona Feretto

Safeword by Glenn Millican

Sailfish by Kyle Portbury & Toby Osborne

Santa Boy by Gary Geyer

Sardis the Merciful by Christian Thomas

Saudade by Kory Olson

Saving Shakespeare by Isabel Bacigalupo

Sawbuck by Mark Strauss

Scatter by Ed Cripps

Scattered by Nick Wildash

Scriptures and Cigarettes by Joseph O’Driscoll

Sculpting Secrets by Jennifer Katz

Seamus Pitt by Joe Swanson & Matt Zucker

Self-Preservation by Juan Armijos

Selling Water by the River by James Connelly & Justin LaForge

Semmelweis by Keith Tomlinson

Senseless Confidential by Marty Beaudet

Sex Monsoon by Anna Maganini

Sexton by Elizabeth Oyebode

Shadows in Scarlet by Adrian Ferrara & Gavin Ferrara

Short Squeeze by Nicholas Marsillo

Sibling Rivalry by Ehren Hotchkiss & Brian Hotchkiss

Signs, Songs & Optimism by Sharen Wood

Simon Says by Keryl Brown

Singlewide Pride by Todd Bull

Sink Swim by Elvis Wilson

Sins of a Super Hero by Dennis Douda

Six Weeks by Johnathan Huslage & Samantha Walker

Sky Thief by Jamie Barthol

Slave by Alejandro Sesma

Slush Funds by M. Lee Brutsche

So Now What? by Connie Weidel

Social Chameleon by Alexandra Weir

Song of Los by Gemma Ventura

Sophie & Valentina by Lucy Luna

Sorrow For Gold by Coleman McClary

Speed by Ryan Jennifer

Squirt by Randy Kaplan & Scott Bernstein

Stewardess by Teresa Sullivan

Storm House by Mark Hibbett

Strange Lady on a Train by Nicholas Pyle

Strangeways by Brian A. Rafferty

Strategem by Kieron Holland & Antaine Furlong

Student Teacher by Molly Gardner

Survivng Life by Stephanie Jones

Sweet Souls Atrocious by Tracey Bradley

Take My Wife by Linda Algazi

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

Talk Show Host by Jake Blandford

Tango with Solitude by Maria Hinterkoerner

Tanks by Col. Duke Mulligan

Tansen by Aarthi Ramanathan

Tech and Stryker by Odin Ozdil

Ted Will Return Shortly by Dan Ochwat

Tehran by Alex Fazeli

Ten Speed by John Cork

Tenerife by Richard Willett

Terminus by Omri Rose

Terrorist, Defined by Arianna Safi

Tesla by Caroline E. Layne

Teton Reckoning by Debi Yazbeck

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 Adam Stangeby

The Archivist by Greg Cohen

The Art of Snitching by Alexandra Natapoff

The Artificial Woman by Carter Lyles

The Aryan Bookstore by Harold Zellman & Shelley Zellman

The Assignation by Paul Sherman

The Avitrix by Stephen Kelly

The Ballade of Wilbur Wright by Stephen Woodward

The Big Middle by Chris Tolley

The Blue Saint’s Legend by Fabio A. Ortega

The Book of Life by Peter Groth

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 Colored Women’s Chapter by Nancy Zafris

The Complex by Alison Star Locke

The Consultant by David Fairhurst

The Courtesan by Marjory Kaptanoglu

The Crossing Guards by Mike Bernard

The Day We Tried to Live by Sergio Padilla

The Dead House by Shannon Pestock

The Deserted by Pj Farrell

The Diary of Adrian St. Faith by Sean Farrington & Heather Lovette

The Education of Tobias Smith by Zach Jansen

The Fifth Stage by Aaron Sala

The Floor is Lava by Thomas Nesti

The Friend Zone by Aaron Marshall

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 Hopeless Sprint by Brandon Constantine

The Hourglass by Joel Bernard Karlinsky

The Hum by Patricia Sorge Peragine

The Iron Bastard by Walter McCarthy

The Key by Greg Price

The Kidnap by David Scullion

The Lady Be Good by Jeff Toulouse

The Last Statesman by David Clarke Lambertson

The Lawn Girl Diaries by Deirdre Morales

The Life Vaccine by Adam Pachter

The Line by Donan Whelan

The Little Traveler by Wayne Bibee

The Living Years by Lee Thomas Kehoe

The Magician’s Assistant by Darren Teo

The Making of Harriet T. by Yhane Smith

The Man Who Was Thursday by Jonathan Elliot English

The Mark by Kris Pathirana

The McKenzie Friend by Paul Mendelson

The Medley by Keka Reis

The Memory Man by David Bugay

The Movie Saloon by Derick Otto & Rebecca Arnold

The Order of the Pest by David Pepose

The Ostrich Farm by Tyler Tice

The Pain Man by Benjamin T. Busfield MD

The Pier by Emily Kolk

The Pits by Paola Andrea Ariza

The Prodigy by Tommy Trull

The Projectionist by Alison Star Locke

The Race To Saxony by Brian Hood

The Revolt of the Whales by Michael Rhodes

The Rim of the World by Bettina Moss

The Rules Of Perspective by John Morrison

The Savage Land by Jesus Celaya

The Second Coming by Sheryl Parrigan

The Second Tour by Ian Lerch & Logan Spencer

The Secrets of Belford by Taylor Gillen

The Shadow Of The Past by Adam McLean

The Shadows of Hall House by Ashley Sanders

The Sign by Jessica Paliza

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 Thief by Jenny Seidelman

The Triennial by R. Frederick Ehrenreich

The Tunnel by Diana Westfall

The Weimar Solution by Ian Bonser

The Welcome by Gesha-Marie Bland

The Women Here Are Giants by Al Topich

The Yellow Line by Mike Worthington & Ryan Young

There’s No Place Like… by Carl Pickard

These Damn MacFaddens by Rebecca Mlinek

These Inferior Beings by Owen Paul Nicholls

They Know Not With Whom by F. Aaron Franklin

This Old Man by Nicholas Oktaras

ThisAbility by Don Fried & Mike Fuhrmann

Through The Trees by Mike Andrews

Tiny by Kendell Courtney Klein

To Sharpen A Thorn by Clint Pearson & Patricia Benzon

Together by Steven J Piekutoski

Tomorrow by Ian Howarth

Too Cool For School by Nicholas Martin Johnson

Torgsin by Jeremy Scarth Bowkett

Trading Penance by Timothy D. Kanieski

Tragic Orgy by Aaron Easterbrooks

Trapped in Tuscany by Jennifer Rapaport

Traveler by Dana Cowden

Trials and Tribulations by Dameon D. Pichetrungsi

Trina Sheridan & The Legend of Johnny Garlic by Nicholas Martin Johnson

Triskaidekaphobia by Brian Padian

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

Under the Ice by Brett O’Keeffe & Chad Jones

Underground Kings by Sam Oliveri & Matthew Kramer

Until The Last Has Come by Jason Edwards

Until the Sun Sets by Quantrell Jackson

Venus Ever After by Trisha Thomas

Walking Blind by Chloe-Lynn Russo

Want by Kati Royle

War Woman by Steven L. Fournier

Warsaw by Kimberly Kaplan

Wasted by Peter Devonald

Waterlily Jaguar by Melora Walters

Way Up High by Dominic Reynolds

We Were Just Kids by Danielle Bonder

West Dakota by Mark J. Rose

What’s So Funny? by Tim Chan

When the Sun Dies by Gabriel Legua Velarde

When They Find You by Kevin McAlpine

Where Dead Men Lie by Joshua Montcalm

Where Wolves Fear to Prey by Jason Gray

White Gold by Rebecca Handley

White Label by Greg Gilpatrick

Wildlands by Alan J. Adler

Winter: Break by Brandon Green

Worm Head by Jonathan Crow

Worry Dolls by Robert Wolfe Dunn & Ryan Trevino

Wrong Blonde by Anthony Egan

XX – The Story of Mankind by Eva M. Strucken

Yes, Virginia by Ben Feuer

Zombie Lover by Stephen Mack

Competition Results Announcement Schedule:

• Quarter-Finalists will be announced March 1st, 2015.

• 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

The 2015 Top Ten Percent of Short Screenplay Submissions will be announced on Monday, February 16th at 2 PM PST!

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

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