2026 BlueCat Winners
We are proud to announce the 2026 Winners of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition!
Our Feature Winner and Short Winner will each receive a $3,000 prize, while our Fellini Winner, awarded for Best International Script, will receive $2,000.
This year’s competition was exceptionally competitive, with 2,715 feature submissions and 1,091 short submissions from writers around the world. We are grateful to every writer who submitted their work and helped make this year’s competition such a success.
THE WINNERS
FEATURE WINNER
Vena Sewn In by Ann Marie Martin
SHORT WINNER
Smokeshow by Chloe Leigh King
FELLINI WINNER (BEST INTERNATIONAL SCRIPT)
Life as a Mesoplankton by Ariella Stoian
Congratulations and thank you to all who submitted to this year’s competition!
