BlueCat Screenplay
2016 Results
Winners
Feature
Mona. Richy. Robby. And Ray
A black woman will not allow another black woman to attend her white church.
Short
Cordelia Award (Best UK)
Title IX
by Haydn Fox
As a couple’s marriage heads towards a disastrous end, the story reflects on the events that brought them to the present.
Joplin Award (Best International)
Parody
by Chad J. Nelson & Alexander Ellerston
After a chance encounter with his identical twin’s mistress, a curious psychologist begins to unravel a web of deceit leading to fatal consequences.
Roshan Award (Best of India)
Deepest, Darkest or How Not to Lie
When a public relations executive discovers a note from her deceased best friend, she must find the trigger for his untimely death – revealing his long-distance relationship with a man, while confronting her own fears of unrequited love.
Finalists
Feature
In the Cradle of Granite
When a young girl discovers the corpse of a notorious outlaw, her father must strike a deal with the stranger bringing the body to justice. Miles from civilization in the harsh Oregon frontier, together the two men will discover a bounty is always best earned alone.
Amara, 15
Amara, 15 (formerly Hijita de Papá) is a coming-of-age feature about a 15-year-old Bronx teenager who is desperate to escape her father’s sexual abuse but who will do anything to leave her two little sisters behind.
Dog
A mute drifter and a lonely night clerk must face their deepest fears when confronted by a mysterious man in a patchwork dog mask at a remote, rundown motel.
Death of An Ortolan
A disgraced White House chef is discovered decades later preparing meals for prisoners on death row, but he risks a chance at redemption when he befriends an inmate whose guilt appears doubtful.
Short
I Sleep Easy
by Tess Carroll
A young girl demonstrates her method of appeasing the yellow-eyed beast that haunts her town.
When We Run
by Nikki Tran
Saigon, 1978. A young girl learns the meaning of sacrifice during an impromptu escape out of Vietnam.
Changelings
by Nic Yulo
Struggling to keep his dysfunctional family afloat, a teenage boy challenges his immature father by threatening to ruin a family tradition.