BlueCat Screenplay
2010 Results
Winners
Feature
Below the Waist
by Ian Simpson
Vanessa, a brilliant, introverted 16-year old, must go to aberrant lengths in order to learn how to ‘feel’ again after a car accident at the hands of her best friend leaves her permanently paralyzed below the waist.
Cordelia Award
Tilford
A widow and her young son give refuge to a wounded government witness after discovering he’s testifying against the underworld figure that tore their family apart.
Joplin Award
One Night in Asbury Park
A local teenage girl with nothing and nowhere to go meets a visiting foreign student in a rockin’, early 60’s dance hall. Their love clashes with the lethal rage of a jealous boyfriend.
Finalists
Feature
A Novel Approach to Suicide
by Brien Kelly
A used bookstore owner searches for answers after noticing eerie correlations between his life and the unusual book he is reading.
Pisser
by Eric Hueber
Cramped in a Winnebago with a violent stepfather and a loving yet self-destructive mother, a child struggles to live down his nickname – Pisser.
The Penitent Man
by Jason George
The Penitent Man by Jason George Alfred Booth awakes from a nightmare and discovers his heart has been stolen from his body. He embarks on a night-time journey to find it.
The Physicist
by Teresa Lo
After moving from San Francisco to Kansas during the 1980s, a Chinese-American family must learn to adapt to small-town life.