The BlueCat Screenplay Competition was founded by Gordy Hoffman in 1998 and has grown into one of the most respected competitions today. Dedicated to develop and celebrate the undiscovered screenwriter, they provide written feedback on every screenplay entered in BlueCat. The top five are suggested to the best of the industry, with the women finalists receiving live staged readings at the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, New York.
The deadline for the 2005 competition is March 1, 2005. You may submit electronically for $35 or by postal mail $25. Five finalists will be named on July 1, 2005, with the winner announced on July 15, 2005. The winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize.
The winning screenplay for the 2004 competition was The Man in the Rearview Mirror by Andrwe Pagana and Justin Thomas. The Man in the Rearview Mirror is the story of a man, his wife and mother-in-law, in pursuit of a suspected kidnapper on the Eisenhower Highways of the 1950’s, brilliantly recalling the Hitchcock classic, REAR WINDOW, at 90 miles an hour.
Gordy Hoffman is the brainchild of BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Gordy’s first produced screenplay, LOVE LIZA, directed by Todd Luiso, and starrnig his brother Philip Seymour Hoffman, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category at the 10th Annual Chlotrudis Awards. He recently made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which will premiere in 2005.
Gordy’s partner-in-crime, Heather Schor, did marketing and publicity on MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, THE GREY ZONE, and REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, amongst other movies for Rogers & Cowan, a top PR firm in Hollywood. In 2003, Heather was a producer on the inaugural Artivist Film Festival, and later that same year, was the production coordinator on A COAT OF SNOW, a digital feature. In 2004, she partnered with Gordy on BlueCat, where she developed SCREENPLAY LIVE. Later in 2005, she begins pre-production on the heist movie, set in Rochester, being written by Gordy.