BlueCat Announces Contest Winner
Man Among Boys, by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson, has been named the winner of the 2005 BlueCat Screenwriting Competition.
Man Among Boys
by Andrew Stock and Rick Stempson
An ethically challenged Rod Laver worshipper moonlighting as a custodian finds himself in charge of the high school tennis team, only to throw down the singularly most unorthodox coaching performance in the history of the game.
All queries should be directed to the authors:
andrstock@yahoo.com 512.731.4129.
Finalists
Donnie's Brother by Jim Beggarly
With his parents buckling under the pressure of an impending tragedy, a high school basketball star hatches a getaway with an odd convenience store clerk named Donnie, to start over with his brother out of state, a brother who the entire town claims is not alive.
JimBeggarly@hotmail.com 917.287.0771
Panacea by Aaron Guzikowski
When a tiny statue a boy has found in the woods apparently awakens his comatose father, his mother sets out to heal the world, one person at a time, until she slowly realizes each and every cure has a disturbing cost.
aguzikow@digitas.com 917.327.4893
The Break-In by Ryan David Jahn
After a man kills a burglar in self-defense, he elects to leave the body in his bathtub, setting out on an obsessive hunt to discover the identity of his victim, who happens to be his identical twin.
ryandavidjahn@yahoo.com
Holy Hell by Frances Zuccarel
A tailspinning, sexual triangle between two Catholic priests and the owner of a Hell's Kitchen speakeasy implodes over Ash Wednesday 1930 against the backdrop of a violent transit worker strike, when suddenly, quite out of nowhere, they bear witness to a miracle.
beautykilledbeast@yahoo.com 212.253.9742
2005 Honorable Mentions
The Kewpie Doll Kiss by George Birimisa
Elder Franklin by Anthony Brosnan
The Living Sky by Jack Dawe
Vineyard Sound by Eric Molinsky
You May Say I'm A Dreamer by Cinthea Stahl
The BlueCat Screenplay Competition is open to writers worldwide and received 1035 entries this year.
Updated: 07/26/2005
Additional Contest Info: BlueCat Screenplay Competition
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