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BlueCat Screenplay

2018 Results

Winners

Feature

Death of a Fool

by Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone

A teenager and his dying grandfather conduct afterlife investigations in Miami when a mysterious man hires them to find the secret to immortality.

Short

Wa-Wa

by Amy Wang

A 5-year-old girl attempts to overcome feelings of inadequacy and isolation at a boarding school for overworked parents.

Fellini Award

Karma

by Kwok Keong

A budding photographer yearns to do hard-hitting journalism just like her late father until she lands the opportunity to cover the 2008 elections in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the very place where her father was brutally murdered while on assignment just a decade earlier.

Hour Pilot

The Backyard You Know

by Ben Philippe

After a series of setbacks at Harvard University, IBI JOSEPH is forced to move back to the Bronx—the home he thought he’d escaped as a young prodigy.

Half Hour Pilot

Infinite Gary

by Joey Siara

Gary, a perfectly bland middle-aged dad, begins to unravel after being violently attacked by a doppelgänger. Joined by his punk rock daughter and her half-baked boyfriend, Gary embarks on an existential odyssey to locate his attacker.

Short Film Festival Winner

Spinosaurus

by Tessa Hoffe

A young girl cares for her younger brother at home, while she awaits her mother’s return.

Finalists

Feature

A Game of Supers

by Khamanna Iskandarova

A rich eleven-year-old must come to terms with living in a country and going to public school after ending up in a poorhouse.

Winter Quarters

by Nathan Floody

When a dead body is found in the lion cage, an aging animal trainer must kidnap his lions from the circus while finding the real killer to clear their names.

Men

by Rebecca Dreyfus

MEN is the story of a woman who- when confronted with her difficult father’s terminal cancer- begins a secret, unstable affair with his favorite student.

Her Weight on Me

by Rebecca Shuhan Lou & Sofia Drummond-Moore

A coming-of-age psychological thriller centering around a Chinese-American girl who, sexually stunted because of her parents’ intense pressure, must break free not only from their control but from a monstrous nightmare presence.

Hour Pilot

Odessa

by Isaac Siegemund-Broka

In 1918, a young gun of Odessa’s organized crime faction attempts to rise in prominence as his closest friend takes on a leading role in the concurrent Russian Revolution. Based on selected works by Isaac Babel.

News Values

by Jacob Krasnow

In order to save his job, a disgraced local news videographer chases an impossible story that threatens to topple the corrupt but successful athletic program at a major university.

The Golden Age

by Lauren Hussey

In Post-World War II America, an aspiring horror writer moves to Hollywood to pursue her dreams. But after procuring a job at a major movie studio, an unexpected murder rocks the insular community of colorful personalities, and the suspect is anyone’s guess.

Half Hour Pilot

I Love You Mr. Freeze

by Randy Rex

A girl is abducted by a psychopath with a manifesto, and a world-weary Sheriff must team up with the local ice cream man to find her before it’s too late.

Black Cabs

by Christopher Maudsley

A young, unemployed footman attempts an honest living at the height of the abolition movement in ruthless Eighteenth-Century England, thrown into a sedan-chair startup with his dead employer’s chaotic son and a savvy social campaigner.

Area 51

by Josh Smooha

A secret force of government agents assigned to investigate alien happenings adjust to their new and overly emotional teammate: a super A.I. in a hunky new human body.

Issues

by Pogo New

A young woman struggles to achieve and maintain basic markers of human success while literally living with anxiety and depression—as in, she sees them as her roommates.

Conception

by Samuel Josephs

A hunky astronaut terraforming the moon returns to Earth to help announce his pro-life pop star wife’s candidacy for governor of Texas when he vomits and faints on Live TV – he’s pregnant with an alien baby, and life begins at conception.

Short

Cardboard Box

by Bernhard Riedhammer

A homeless girl’s life is defined by her troubled past, her daily struggles of survival, and her attachment to a cardboard box.

First Words

by Meegan May

In the near future, a new experimental technology gives two grieving parents the chance to speak to their young daughter, who has been in a coma since a vicious assault four years ago. But they will only have three minutes to help find her attacker – and say goodbye.

A War on Terror

by Peter Haig

After enduring an attack by Taliban insurgents, a group of US soldiers wake up in a room unsure if they are alive, dead, or worse.

Absolute Beginner

by Shekhar & Shalinder Bassi

Grandfather and widower, PREM, sets out to fall in love for the first time but before he can do that he must find love, which proves to be a challenge.

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