BlueCat Screenplay
2012 Results
Winners
Feature
The Emperor of Wyoming
The fractured and dysfunctional family of an Idaho mortician and struggling author falls apart – and comes together – as he and his estranged son grapple with the moral and ethical implications of a bizarre mission from God, delivered by way of a talking corpse. Dark yet whimsical, tragic while infused with awkward hilarity, The Emperor of Wyoming is a heartwarming, fascinating meditation on familial love, bus theft, murder, and the importance of butterflies.
Short
Trumpet
by Ben Cleary
In his small, isolated cottage, Alexander finds a very unusual trumpet that will turn his lonely existence upside down.
Cordelia Award
Life In A Box
A young man struggling with the death of his girlfriend unwittingly commits suicide, condemning himself to purgatory. Now in a world where memories are all that is left, his desire for life is renewed and a desperate fight to escape begins.
Joplin Award
Random Acts of Violence
by Guy McDouall
A quarantined pacifist fights to help find a cure for the fits of murderous rage he and other test subjects have become afflicted with.
Finalists
Feature
Mallpocalypse
A down-on-her-luck nail salon employee is happy making the world a better place one pedicure at a time, until a near-death experience awakens within her strange supernatural abilities, and she suddenly becomes part of a giant battle of Good vs. Evil… played out in a shopping mall.
The Hosanna Tree
A tale of good versus evil set against the desolate backdrop of Dust Bowl era Oklahoma.
The Prime Mover
by Alex Eylar
A young man witnesses a glitch in time itself and becomes a target of the individuals tasked with protecting the system the world relies on.
Untitled Sarah Palin Sex Doll Project
by Zeke Farrow
When the last virgin in high school creates a fake girlfriend on Facebook as part of an elaborate scheme to get a real one, the woman whose pictures he stole shows up and his fiction becomes a reality.
In the Silence
The story of a woman who has shut herself off emotionally from the world around her for unknown reasons.
Wort Irkington’s Hate Books
A reclusive bus driver coughs up a curious phlegm creature and finds himself forced to choose between his new friend and his life’s work: his Hate Books.
Semifinalists
Cordelia Award
Green Skies Falling
by Matthew Elwell
Josser
by Phil Gladwin
Monkey Puzzle Tree
by L J Sedgwick
The Toilet Attendant
by Daniel Johnson
Whiting to a Snail
by Julian Mountfield
Joplin Award
Carfax
by Yana Gibbs
Lucid
by Philip Tarl Denson
The Summer of 800
by Bjorn B Bjornsson
Feature
By The River
by Eleanor Burgess & Arthur Greene
Chile
by Bobby & Billy Darling
Closing Costs
by Patrick Connelly
Crazy Bet
by Betsy Morgan
El Jeffy
by Andrew Ulloa
Flutter
by Eric Hueber
Green Skies Falling
by Matthew Elwell
Hammerstrike
by Tom Gilman
Legends from the Golden Age
by Arthur Halpern
Mexicali
by Steve LaMontagne
Nixon’s Daughters
by Jacqueline Brogan
Orchard
by Jeremy Greenberg
Seamus Pitt
by Joe Swanson & Matt Zucker
Some Kids Lie
by Michelle Rosenfarb
Temporal
by E.B. Rhee
The Prime Mover
by Alex Eylar
The Last Suicide Note
by J R O’Hara
The Whaler
by Paul Wie
Treasure beneath the Dogwood Tree
by Tyler Jacob Henderson
Tulio
by Gladys Stone
What the Water Gave Me
by Latoya Denise Jackson
Whistler
by Robert Yula & James Higginson
Whiting to a Snail
by Julian Mountfield