Gordy Hoffman - Articles

About the Author Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA , Gordy Hoffman has written and directed three digital shorts for Fox Searchlight. He made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival. He is also the founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Dedicated to develop and celebrate the undiscovered screenwriter, BlueCat provides written screenplay analysis on every script entered. In addition, Gordy offers screenwriters personalized feedback on their scripts through his consultation service, www.screenplaynotes.com.

• You’re an Idiot: Making Value From Reaction to your Screenwriting
  24/02/2007 | Screenplay
  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
  
• The Rogue Knight of Cinema: Why Screenplay Contests Matter
  16/02/2007 | Screenplay
  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
  
• You are the Box Office Smash: the Personal Screenplay
  16/02/2007 | 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: Read
  
• How to Start a Screenplay: Treatment or Free Fall?
  14/02/2006 | Writing
  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. Read
  
• Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge
  30/01/2006 | Writing
  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. Read