BlueCat Screenplay
2015 Results
Winners
Feature
Mouth
When a broke Fem-studies major with an unwanted pregnancy assumes an alias and delves into a transactional relationship with an affluent family man, she must masquerade as a suburban trophy wife while finishing her degree––before her dual identity is unveiled.
Short
Six Months of Wonder Woman
On her twenty-first birthday, a fledgling poet plans her escape from an alcoholic father; but before she can leave home, her superhero-loving mother has one last questionable lesson to teach.
Cordelia Award
Butter Side Up
by Kitty Percy
When a hopelessly unlucky smalltime criminal kidnaps a celebrity by mistake, he finds his luck starting to change in unexpected ways.
Joplin Award
George!
An unhappy family man faces another level of his mundane existence when he wakes up to find himself inhabiting a sitcom version of his life.
Finalists
Feature
Scriptures and Cigarettes
After a near-death experience, a devout Mormon teenager experiments with the outside world for the first time, risking his relationship with his family and community.
i
After a flash flood kills his father, destroys the family farm and leaves him to support his younger brothers, a poor but enterprising teenager sets off to Kuala Lumpur for an iPhone factory job, only to get caught up in the lives of the fabulously wealthy American factory owners.
The Anxieties of Peter Wilhelm
When Peter Wilhelm’s adulterous daydreams creep too close towards becoming reality, he finds himself being whisked away to a rehab facility for sex addiction, only to become part of a radical new procedure that promises to make him fall in love with his wife again… or drive him insane.
Taking the Toll – The Life and Life of Gilbert Booth
by Theodore Schaefer & Patrick Lawler
A young toll booth operator falls for a woman at his father’s nursing home but soon discovers that it’s her 99-year-old grandmother who may be more in tune to his eccentric philosophies, including time travel and his imaginary friend.
Short
The Last Days of the Dolores Project
In a few days, the chimpanzee Dolores will step out of the flight simulator and onto a real airplane, together with the pilot who taught her how to fly, but before the flight, the pilot wants to tell a colleague a secret.
Silk
An abused woman struggles to free herself from her brother’s web of control when a grocery store clerk offers her the chance to escape.
Wake
Following the deaths of two teenage boys, a small-town simpleton with a hobby of crashing strangers’ funerals makes the locals more uncomfortable by trying to sell his homemade casket.