Catalyst Film Festival Utopia, is open for submissions off short films (less than 15 minutes) under the theme of Utopia. If selected your work will be screened at The Potteries Museam & Art Gallery, the city centre museum with a 400 seated screening room.
Why Utopia?
Ideas of perfection, equality, and justice evolve with the time, place, and people producing these ideas. Utopia, or a better world, has to constantly be reworked and re-imagined - it is a conversation, not a blueprint.
A vision for a better world is evident in every complaint and every daydream, from jet-packs and flying cars, to curing cancer, to human rights advocacy. More than anything, Utopian imaginary are about our hopes, plans, and anxieties about the future.
Two awards will be selected. The winner from each category will be announced at the closing ceremony and notified online, along with prizes from our sponsors worth between $100-$200.
If your film has not been selected this time, but you are still interested in connecting with various audiences, please inform us in the application form, so your work can be presented in future screenings. The Movie Mavericks deliver Catalyst Film Festival in addition to running a year round community cinema programme. The organisation works with various communities, using non-conventional disused spaces as pop up cinema venues, such as a courtroom, alleyways, and once a Ukrainian Ski resort.