I'd like to meet:

screenwriters, writers, directors, producers, filmmakers,film students, agents, managers, editors, composers, publicists, production companies, production crew, actors, actresses, film students, promoters, film development, photographers, journalists, distribution, and just about anyone involved in the entertaiment and film industry.

Music:

BlueCat's Podcast Tour

Interview: Gordy Hoffman, Founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition
*Do you get a lot of international submissions?
*How do you manage to give written feedback to all the submissions?
*What genres are accepted?
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Episode 6: BlueCat Screenplay Competition
*Who are the readers?
*What kind of advice for independent writers who don't have an agent would you give?
*When you are reading a competition script, are you looking for story or style or both?
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Episode 5 2008 Interview with Gordy Hoffman
*Your background, How did it all come about?
*What exactly is the BlueCat Screenplay Competition?
*For beginning screenwriters, what tips do you have?

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Episode 10: Gordy Hoffman - Writer, Director, Producer and Founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition
*What other skills should a writer have to be successful in the industry?
*Where can producers find good writers?
*How important is it to be in Hollywood for creating a successful career?
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Interview with Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff on the Word Sushi Podcast

Movies:

A COAT OF SNOW
written and directed by Gordy Hoffman

LOVE LIZA
written by Gordy Hoffman

Television:

2005 winners, Rick Stempson and Andy Stock, on set for their movie, Gary the Tennis Coach

2004 winner, Andy Pagana, and 2006 winner, Young Kim, with Heather and Gordy

Gordy and Andy Pagana on a radio show in NYC

2006 Finalist Maureen Tilyou working with the actors on her script at 2006 Screenplay Live

2005 Finalist, Ryan David Jahn, at 2005 Screenplay Live

Books:

Screenwriting Articles
written by Gordy Hoffman. ____________________________________________
You're an Idiot: Making Value from Reaction to your Screenwriting If you're like me, if someone doesn't like something about my screenplay, my very first reaction is always the same. You're not as smart as me. If you knew what I knew, you would understand what I wrote. And you don't understand what I wrote, because you don't know as much as I do. About everything, in general. In short, life. You know, people. Planet Earth. (read full article)
The Rogue Knight of Cinema: Why Screenplay Contests Matter Screenplay contests are changing cinema. Coming from a person who runs one, your first reaction to this statement is most likely, "The only reason you're saying that is you want me to enter yours." (read full article)
YOU ARE THE BOX OFFICE SMASH: The Personal Screenplay
Right this very second, in the heart of every struggling, undiscovered screenwriter, in the dark, hidden corner deep within, there is a voice, a clear whisper, saying one thing: You're never gonna figure this out. And this is not referring to the story with its gaping hole, the finale missing a payoff, the hit and miss humor, the flat title. I'm talking about freedom. The freedom to work as a screenwriter.
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Naming Your Baby: How to Find a Great Title to your Screenplay
How exactly does one work on the title of their screenplay? I recently came up with such a wonderful idea for a movie, one of those miraculous moments, like finding money on the sidewalk. I told somebody, and they said, "Great. What's the title?" Suddenly, and rather horrifyingly, my beauty of an idea is crippled.
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Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge
After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, the same problems in the execution of the story and script continue to emerge. Here is a general overview of these persistent issues.
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Discovering the Great Movie Idea for Your Next Screenplay
I am lucky. I have no problems coming up with very good ideas for movies. If I never had another idea for the rest of my life, I would not make a sizable dent in the ones I already have.
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How to Start a Screenplay: Treatment or Free Fall?
Starting a screenplay can sometimes be as hard as finishing one. Impatient to pull up to the front door of a classic motion picture, I want to get everything right so quickly. This impatience challenges my trust in the work, the creative process of screenwriting.
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Writing the Classic Movie Ending (How to Finish your Screenplay!)
I’ve only finished so many screenplays in my life. Writing a script all the way to the very last page is always an extremely significant, personal achievement for me. A large part of its significance is the reality that I actually wrote an ending, or, at the very least, typed “THE END.”
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Rewriting your Screenplay: The Road to your Audience
The promise of the rewrite is very sweet. I have collected evidence that the more authentic the labor put into rewriting your screenplay, the greater the reward, and the reward is high, for whatever lovely, wonderful moments you might have discovered in the frightening process of plowing through the first draft.
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The Heart and Soul of Screenwriting: Writing good dialogue and description
Writing dialogue and description is writing a screenplay. You can argue about format and tab margins and what to capitalize and what not. I won't. Dialogue and description is where the experience of screenplay for your reader lives. We write screenplays to make movies. They are not literature.
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Heroes:

2006 Screenplay Live @ High Falls Film Festival

Thursday, Nov 9th, 7:30 pm
Curtis Theatre at George Eastman House
900 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
Tickets can be purchased at www.highfallsfilmfestival.com
Abigail Spencer, star of Lifetime's ANGELA'S EYES, to read at Screenplay Live at the 2006 High Falls Film Festival.
SCREENPLAY LIVE returns for a third year at the High Falls Film Festival with a staged reading of BEARD'S CREEK by Maureen Tilyou, a finalist of the 2006 BlueCat Screenplay Competition.
Abigail Spencer , star of Lifetime's new original series, ANGELA'S EYES , will be reading the lead role. A former cast member of ALL MY CHILDREN, Abby also stars in A COAT OF SNOW , written and directed by Gordy Hoffman. A COAT OF SNOW screens Friday at High Falls.
The annual reading series, held as a part of the High Falls program, brings a highly acclaimed screenplay to Rochester, casting local actors through RochesterTalent.com .
Synopsis of BEARD'S CREEK by Maureen Tilyou
When three children find a murdered woman in the dreamy perils of the swamps of 1950..s Georgia, the daydreams of their latch key lives fracture horrifyingly into the reality of an actual killer, their older sister's new beau.
Maureen Tilyou, the writer of BEARD'S CREEK, will direct her own screenplay. She has developed a mini-series based on the life of Ernest Hemingway with Snake River Productions as well as co-writing THE EXPERIMENT for Riverchild Films in London. She recently finished co-writing the feature FANTASY LAND, currently in pre-production with Intrinsic Value Films. In 2000, Maureen won the Best Picture Award (with director Martin Duffy) at the Austin Heart of Screenwriting Festival for the Welsh story TALIESIN JONES.
Gordy Hoffman, Fairport native and Founder of BlueCat, will moderate the Q&A. Hoffman won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA , which starred his brother, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Kathy Bates. His directorial debut, A COAT OF SNOW, world premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, and went to screen at the Silver Lake Film Festival and the Milan Film Festival . A COAT OF SNOW won the Domani Vision Award , given by VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York. A COAT OF SNOW will screen at the High Falls Film Festival, Friday, Nov 10, at the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman House, at 9:45 p.m.
SCREENPLAY LIVE is sponsored by ROCHESTERTALENT.COM and the ROCHESTER FILM OFFICE .
HIGH FALLS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual international film festival that showcases exceptional work by women in film and video - all positions before and behind the camera, including cinematographer, screenwriter, editor, composer, director, producer, and stuntwoman. The dates for the festival are November 8-13, 2006.
Festival dates are November 8-13, 2006.
2006 SCREENPLAY LIVE
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Curtis Theatre @ George Eastman House
900 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
7:30pm
www.highfallsfilmfestival.com/2005/buytickets.html
To see past SCREENPLAY LIVE events and photos, please visit:
SCREENPLAY LIVE 2005
SCREENPLAY LIVE 2004
BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Hollywood, CA 90028
www.bluecatscreenplay.com
www.myspace.com/bluecatscreenplay