BlueCat Screenplay
2005 Results
Winners
Feature
Gary the Tennis Coach
by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson
An ethically challenged Rod Laver worshipper moonlighting as a custodian finds himself in charge of the high school tennis team, only to throw down the singularly most unorthodox coaching performance in the history of the game.
Finalists
Feature
Donnie’s Brother
by Jim Beggarly
With his parents buckling under the pressure of an impending tragedy, a high school basketball star hatches a getaway with an odd convenience store clerk named Donnie, to start over with his brother out of state, a brother who the entire town claims is not alive.
Panacea
by Aaron Guzikowski
When a tiny statue a boy has found in the woods apparently awakens his comatose father, his mother sets out to heal the world, one person at a time, until she slowly realizes each and every cure has a disturbing cost.
The Break-In
by Ryan David Jahn
After a man kills a burglar in self-defense, he elects to leave the body in his bathtub, setting out on an obsessive hunt to discover the identity of his victim, who happens to be his identical twin.
Holy Hell
by Francis Zuccarello
A tail-spinning, sexual triangle between two Catholic priests and the owner of a Hell’s Kitchen speakeasy implodes over Ash Wednesday 1930 against the backdrop of a violent transit worker strike, when suddenly, quite out of nowhere, they bear witness to a miracle.