BJ Markel
BJ Markel first worked with Blake Snyder in 1986. He edited Blake's three Save the Cat! books and co-founded Blake Snyder Enterprises, LLC with Blake in 2005. In his other life, BJ worked in video acquisitions and entertainment marketing, including 20 years at the Walt Disney Company.
Feature and TV Pilot Winners Announced!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Save the Cat! Screenplay Challenge!
Jennifer Zhang’s Fetish Wins Best Short and $30,000 Grant
Congrats to Jennifer Zhang for her film Fetish, which won the Panavision Award: Outstanding Short at the 2022 Micheaux Film Festival!
Save the Cat! 5.0 Is Here: Introducing Our Focused Layout
Save the Cat! Story Structure Software 5.0 provides a new interface with instant access to all the key elements of your story.
Save the Cat!® Goes to the Tribeca Film Festival
Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying, a comedy which features the Save the Cat! beats, premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival.
New Product Alert: The 100 Beat Sheet Combo
Read 100 beat sheets from Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies and Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies when you purchase both books at a special price.
Jennifer Zhang’s Fetish Is an Official Selection of the Micheaux Film Festival
Filmmaker Jennifer Zhang has 3 films about to hit the marketplace!
David Heska Wanbli Weiden “Beat Out” His Award-Winning Novel, Winter Counts
Read how acclaimed novelist David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of the best-selling "Winter Counts," used the Blake Snyder beat sheet to write the novel.
New Product Alert:
Save the Cat! Hats
The Save the Cat! Trucker Caps are now on sale in grey or white.
Save the Cat!® Unlocks the Magic of Netflix Anime Hit BEASTARS
See the second episode of the Save the Cat!-Netflix co-production of Save the Cat! Goes Anime: "What Makes BEASTARS So Good?"
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