2015 Top Ten Percent Short Screenplays

This year, we set a new record of 1730 short screenplay submissions.

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

Congratulations to the Top Ten Percent!

A Bullet for Brody by Frank DeStefano & Miles Trahan

A Challenge to the Dark by Anna Imhof

A Fragile Storm by Dawn Fields & Carly Street

A Life in Limbo by Gill White

A Moment In Paradise by Jay Connor

A Trip Down Mary Ann Lane by Despina Karintis

A Way Out by Kai Conceicao

Alexander the Great by Claire Olivia Bell

Alienating Alliteration by Karen Loseff

All For What by Alex Phillips

Allegory by Charlie Bambridge

An Ordinary WednesdaySaturday by Nick McMurdy

An Outback Invitation by Terry Comer

Ark City Jazz by Boaz David Dror

At Your Disposal by Diana Lee Woody

Atchafalaya by Hunter Burke & Nick Lavin

Avid Sniffer by Lauri Lippmaa

Baby Girl by Samuel Douglas Miller

Balloon Guy by Paul Williams

Beacons by Ed Cripps

Bee Hive by Logan Wilkin

Belonging by Jessica Spinelli

Between the Rock by Richard D. Kinsella

Big Sister by Paige Brien

Bingo by Daniel Pike

Bitter Reality by Gareth Morinan

Bleeders by Dana Cowden & Harris Palmer

Boomerang by April McKay

Boomerang the Great by Ana R. Dominick

Breathe by Theo James Krekis

Browsing by Kevin Noonan

Bucharest By Bus by Jonathan Poland

Cakewalk by Andrew MacDonald

Change by Sara Nguyen

Chasing Wonderland by Brian Hewitt

Chemistry 101 by Mike Reft

Cobblestone Waltz by Klemen Novak

Come of Age by Gerard Dempsey

Coming Home by Joanna Marie Fox

Confiance by Tony French

Corporate by Kris Pathirana

Crazy Date by Colin Maiorano

Cricket by Jim Berg

Cross Roads by Paul Fox

Daddy’s Girl by Napoleon Ryan

Dark Knight of the Supper Club by Bill Scheggia

Deal With It: A Tale of a Loving Father by Nicholas Hewitt & Nick Marro

Dive by Christian Howard & Krystal M. Harris

Do Not Disturb by Ellen Hall

Don’t Look Up by Ben Matthews

Double Dealing by Tracey Robinson

Dragonslayer by Tim Viola

Droppings by Chris Thompson

Duel Identity by Barbara Truelove

8:49 by David Burton

Elixir by Colin Scott

Endorheic by Jeremy Yonzon

Everybody Has a Thing by Allan George

Extras by Andrew Dalziel

Family Programming by Gregg Paul Bachman

Family Trip by Eric Wall

Father by Corina Maritescu

Feather by Chijim J. Onyemenam

Feral by Jaine N. Eira

Fire by Brian MacEvilly

First Day by Anabelle Vo

Flash Rob by Derek Stewart

Flying High by Xavier Burgin

Follow the Money by Anita J. Louis

Friday Nights with Beelzebub by Jasmine Brammer

Generation Ship by Gerrit Thompson

Girl At The Window by Ed Wiles

Gloaming by Ben Lange

Goodbye Fusion by Anne-Sophie Marie

Gorgeousroomkissingville by Sam Mossler

Hairline by Edmund Miller

Hands Free by Gerard Dempsey

Hanged Tongues by Élyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath

Happy Birthday by Jan Pavlacky

Head Trip Latte by Yordi Capó

Hindsight by Grant McNair

History of Sight by Darcy Miller

Hit the Dog by Gabriel Loza

Home Fires Burning by Anders Vacklin

Hotel California by Brhee McClure

How I Met Your Daddy by Sivuyile Chitywa

How to Catch a Time Traveler by Graham Parke

How Winter Kills by Jack E. Norton

I Am Macbeth by Cotton Ciaverelli

I Want to Beat Up Clark Peters by Joseph Picozzi

I’m Too Small To Bear The Load by Alana Waksman

If You Go There by Stacy Alynn

Immaculate Deception by Haldon Richardson

Incident on I-95 by Fred Perry

Inside The Musician’s Studio by Kris Pathirana

Interview With A Marauder by Parker Cooley

It Has To Be You by Conrad Rothbaum

Joy Ride by Niav Conty

Keep by Lauren Lang

Khalid Waseem by Salim Penn

Kill Them With Kindness by Barry Brennessel

Killer Class by Ron Gephart

La Femme Flambeau by Yvonne LaBarge

Labor Day by Kallie Tenney

Last Rites by Johanna Wright

Learning to Drive by

Roderick E Stevens II

Les The Punter by Julian Williams

Life Cycle by Shelia Watson

Little Mate by Keagan Teare

LondonGirl24: The Story of a Twitter Crush by Kipp Mathews

Loose Ends by David Viau

Lotty On The Road by Fredrica Bailey

Maybe in Moscow by Alexander Black

Men Mashing Machine by Celso Eduardo Leite Vecchi

Men of Paper by Brian MacEvilly

Miss Moscow by Michele Atkins

Miss World by Georgia Fu

Moment Mob by Geoffrey Uloth

Mr. Twitch by Gabriel Loza

N***A by Roberto Covarrubias

Next by Declan Donohoe

Once Upon A Zombie Invasion by Sarah Loeppke

One Day Home by Rebecca Louise Miller

One Pin Spare by Ashley Pollard

Order 101 by Karen Hope

Phoenix by Sarah Counsell & Simon James Green

Play With Me by Celine Spierer

Polite Conversation by Andrew Crook

Pretzelina by E.M. Davis

Prisoner and Bird by Jillian Moylan

Rare by April Phillips

Rat by Shaun James

Reaper by Patrick Mahon

Reboot by Dave Lacey

Registered by Elizabeth Rogers

Remember Brighton by Michael Gibney

Remember Me by J.G. Wu

Replanting by Mary Krell-Oishi

Rock, Paper, Sister by Dan Tomasulo

Rough Draft by Eric Wall

Scenes from a Kissing Booth by Matthew Weaver

Sent For by Jeremy Colvin

Seven Days by Bruce Rose

Silenced by Sandra Held

Silk by Danielle Barcena

Six Months of Wonder Woman by Susan Fleming

Sleeping Beauty by Emily Mayo

Sol Amor by Francis Theodore Sallo

Sophie’s Promise by Terry Coffey

Sounds Like Love by Laura Juliet Ford

Statuesque by Shane Murphy

Stay Off My Mind, Stay In My Arms by Cezar Valentin Constantin

Strangers in the Night by Kara Cutruzzula

Stronghold by Cornelius Murphy

Suckers by Malaya Rivera Drew

Sweet Tooth by Will Bentley

Sweetie by Sara Feinberg

Tether by Eve Symington

The Atlas by Ian Michael Kintzle

The Balloon Man by Scott Keiner

The Barber by Brian Hewitt

The Bug by Ryan Kessler

The Chocolate Kandinski by Suzanne Griffin

The Cleaner by Manos Ioannou

The Closing Act by P. L. Hartz

The Cock by Matty Groves

The Dank Knight by Akshay Jain

The Diary of a Chosen One by Brittany Drawdy

The Disappeared by Tom Canning

The Doll Maker by Matias Caruso

The Evil Eye by Roberto Marini

The Fifteenth of June by Sean Williams

The Fourth Wall by Joseph P. Arant

The Gazebo by Richard Willett

The Gift by Clark Kokich

The Goldfish by David Yap

The Kung-Fu Rock Chick by Caryn McCann

The Landing by Barry Jay Stich

The Last Adventure of the Secret Six by Ben Pahl Robinson

The Last Days of the Dolores Project by Ludwig Thelin

The Last Sneeze by Andrew Pittman

The Letter by Alvin Easter

The Lie Detector by Paul Williams

The Line by Ryan Cope

The Man with Hairy Teeth by Bryce Wolfgang Joiner

The Millionaire’s Wife by Jeremiah Lewis

The More Things Change by Ashley Rachel

The Only Fruitcake by April McKay

The Outside by Ashley Zazzarino

The Perfect Red by Christopher McGinnis & Jacquelyn Knapp & Rebecca Mansfield

The Projectionist by Guy Pooles

The Railroad Lady by Timo von Gunten

The Runner by Edgar Cancel

The Still Point by Sharon Elwell

The Strange and Crude Yet Punctilious Fate of Epoch Crab by Dennis T. Nixon

The Undisputed Champion of the World by John Morrison

The Value Engine by Ed Stahr

The Vanishing Act by Valerie Friera

The Vomit Draft by Gerard Dempsey

The Waking Hours by Adam Futch

The Way of Evil Men by Khadijah Holgate

Tomorrow Never Comes by Clint Horvath

Too Young by Dayle Vander Sande

2084 by Matthew Wygodny

2014 by Luke Tolen

Una Plus Lionel by Angelique Moseley

Under Cover of Darkness by Nathaniel E. Mason

Unsupervised by Dylan Evans

Vampir by Anya Beyersdorf

Vendgeance Machine by John Shelley

Wake by Darren Robert Tibbits

Warring Sighs by Claire Nicol

Watermelons by Lorie Delap

When The Ghost Left by Alyssa Yerga-Woolwine

Where’s Guy by Varun Raman & Tom Hancock

Without a Scratch by Kevin K. Jones

Wolfmother by Emily Bloom

Women Are They Worth It by Chad Smith

Your Children Are Not Yours by Mitja Sirola

Zen and Gummy Bears by Max Liedtka

Zoo by Annemarie Lawless

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

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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