BlueCat Screenplay
2021 Results
Winners
Grand Prize
Astray
A widowed Muslim doctor who also happens to be an aspiring Imam, grapples with his faith when his child reveals their transgender identity.
Feature
Prince of Lavendale Street
by Bev Chukwu
A 12-year-old romantic’s life goes from fairy-tale to nightmare as he clashes with his widowed Nigerian mother in order to find his princess and fulfill his father’s dying wish.
Pilot
All the Sons of Bitches in the World
After the accidental murder of their White Classmate, three MOWA Choctaw boys escape the Gladstone Assimilation Academy and hatch a plan to raise money at the John L. Sullivan heavyweight championship.
Short
Little Orange Flags
Twelve-year-old Iris is sent to live on a farm in rural Pennsylvania after an encounter with her mom’s boyfriend.
Fellini Award
Cwtch
A conservative mother investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of her estranged son, pulling her into the criminal underworld of county line crime and the life of a young immigrant.
Finalists
Feature
Ability
When a corrupt official steals their benefits, a veteran must convince an oddball crew of disability claimants to help him pull off a heist.
The Understudy
After twenty years as a journeyman actor, Chester Knapp finally takes the stage as a leading man on the same night his nemesis has chosen to kill Abraham Lincoln.
Bear Spray and Cake
A comedic drama that follows Marilyn as she weather’s the storm (an actual storm) at her long-time lover’s rustic weekend wedding– with her alcoholic mother.
Pilot
Dead-End Job
by Alison Lynch
When the manager of a newspaper’s obituary call center dies, an underachieving employee struggles to compose the perfect tribute for her enigmatic boss.
All Turned Out
When two former dancers inherit their childhood studio from their eccentric dance teacher, their clashing visions unearth their adolescent dynamic as sworn frenemies.
Dimebag
by Jimmy Prosser & Rohan Shankar
In a rapidly gentrifying San Diego, a power-tripping weed plant and a coughed-up lung convince a young couple to open a “cannabis-infused” home restaurant to exact revenge on the DEA and a local cheesesteak empire.
Short
Lone Star
by Eli Lutsky
A surreal journey into the subconscious mind of George W. Bush as he becomes lost in thought during a moment of crisis.
In Freedom
A couple of indigenous Guatemalans receive an unexpected visitor threatening to throw their lives into complete disarray.
Belated
An absent mother desperately attempts to win her young daughter’s affection during a belated birthday celebration but risks straining the relationship further.
Puppets
by Rami Obeid
A social worker is surprised at a boy’s determined plan to help his sick mother.