BlueCat Screenplay
2019 Results
Winners
Feature
Fox Hollow
by Ariel Sobel
After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, a closeted high school senior checks into the last hotel with a vacant room ― a five-star luxury inn – where she’s forced to live with her family in one room for six months.
Short
Forever Tonight
An Indian-American girl wrestles with her otherness at a pre-prom gathering.
Hour Pilot
Tenth Street
Every 200 years, all living residents of Angel City vanish without a trace. It’s about to happen again, and the only person who can stop it is a hapless loser who’s the last living descendant of the town’s protectors.
Half Hour Pilot
Clay
by Katie Blair
On Manhattan’s rigid Upper East Side, a socially and physically uncomfortable woman embarks on a fraught path to sue her own family’s pharmaceutical company over the drug that gave her life-altering side effects. A dark comedy.
Fellini Award
Learning Curve
by Eleanor Kirk
The brainy but emotionally tone-deaf Sam Widge joins the eclectic assortment of staff at Shirley Dirley’s tuition centre, where they seem to focus on anything other than actually teaching.
Finalists
Feature
Alejandra
A geology professor juggling menopause, an elderly mother with dementia and a career in crisis has her world upturned when her 19-year-old daughter elopes with her boyfriend during a routine survey of sandstone in the California desert.
The Mothman
Small-time pro wrestler Mickey Piper undergoes an experimental procedure to treat his advancing brain damage and begins a surreal transformation into his onstage alter ego.
Family
by Marc Ketchem
With a delinquent daughter doing drugs and considering prostitution, a son adventuring into the treacherous world of online chatting and exploring his sexuality, a cheating father fighting to hold onto his youth, and a burned out mother reeling from her new boss who won’t get off her case, things are not looking good for the dysfunctional Harris family in 1986.
The Empty Quarter
On the Crow Reservation in Montana, a young man from a broken family strives to complete the four tasks required to become a War Chief. The only problem is, he isn’t really sure who the enemy is and who he should be fighting.
Short
Sunshine
by Amber Scott
Sunshine chronicles a day in the life of Gwen, an elderly African American woman who suffers from dementia, of her young caretaker, Joe, and the surprising ways they connect through the fog of the disease.
Spic
Johnny is an 11-year-old Latino boy whose uncle has been seized by I.C.E. Needing money to hire a lawyer for the uncle, Johnny must go with his father to a drug deal. Inspired by true events.
Only Dead Know the Dead
A railway trackman on night duty watches a young man’s dead body waiting for the autopsy team to collect it. His thoughts and experience do not make a right match!
Hour Pilot
Pulp Syndicate
In 1938 New York City, cartoonists, mob bosses, and titans of business vie for supremacy in the nascent comic book industry.
XX
A group of women from different walks of life join forces to take down a notorious, wealthy, Tasmanian rancher.
Stand
A failed lawyer who returns to the small, Texas hometown that made his life a living hell and gets a chance at redemption when he takes on the defense of a client no one else wants: an 8th Grader accused of murder.
The Curator
A brilliant curator, fighting for truth and integrity in the corrupt world of a large New York art museum, has to solve the mystery of a forged Caravaggio painting even though the museum, the art market, and the Russian mafia are all trying to stop him.
Half Hour Pilot
Crash & Burn
by Clare Higgins & Julie Fassnacht
Trout, Montana isn’t known for much — besides a four-story fiberglass fish. But that’s about to change when middle-school misfits Denny, Rob and Oliver try to crack a local cold case, and get way in over their heads.
Bottom of the Top
A small-town black girl and college freshman tries to have the “best four years of her life” while struggling with being in the bottom tier (academically, socially, and economically) of her top tier institution.
Artemis of Chicago
Artemis navigates single life at an age her Greek-American family considers too late while desperately trying to find a date to her late father’s traditional funeral.
