BlueCat Screenplay
2014 Results
Winners
Feature
3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst b
by HF Crum
The true story of the assassination of a revolutionary Mexican presidential candidate unfolds from the original standoff of three gunmen in Tijuana.
Short
Winged
by Jennifer Cui
A young Chinese girl ventures outside her home to find a crowd gathered near a dead body, only to find something entirely different upon second glance.
Cordelia Award
Face to Face
A cosmetic surgeon’s life starts to unpick at the seams after he accidentally ruins the face of a celebrity client.
Joplin Award
The Longest Birthday
When a clinical trial in Israel fails to treat her young son’s cancer, a single mother takes him back home to Los Angeles to celebrate one more time.
Finalists
Feature
Bad House
Hoping for a fresh start, a desperate father moves his estranged wife and kids into a mysterious new house, where he soon discovers the horror of the perfect family.
Chicago Shuffle
by Dennis Capps
A mild-mannered Prohibition-era accountant has a chance meeting with the twin brother he never knew he had, a brash Chicago gangster, but when he wakes up trapped in his brother’s identity, he’s forced to find himself as he fights to return to his old life.
Hambone
Set against the illegal dogfighting scene in Los Angeles, a gangbanger sentenced to community service at an animal shelter forms a bond with an abused pit bill scheduled to be euthanized.
The History of Magic
A degenerated traveling Mexican magician and his teenage niece find themselves on the same path of life as he approaches her home in a Texas border town.
Short
Wolfie
A Muslim man finds a strange woman when he travels to a remote mountain in search of a wolf he encountered as a child.
The Twelve Plagues
A Jewish painter travels to receive a prestigious award, coming head to head with his wife’s new boyfriend, Torah-thumping art patrons, and a slutty parapalegic.
WAABOOZ
A young Native American comic book fan faces his life and fear of dancing with the help of his superhero alter ego.