Tickets & festival visit
Questions about tickets, passes, venues, travel, accessibility, festival timing, or planning your Catalina visit.
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Questions about the festival, submissions, tickets, partnerships, press, accessibility, or visiting Catalina? Send us a message and we’ll route your enquiry to the right place.
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Choose the enquiry type that best matches your message. This helps the festival team respond more efficiently and keeps filmmaker, attendee, press, and partnership questions organized.
Submissions & programme
Questions about submitting a film, FilmFreeway guidance, screening materials, filmmaker attendance, or programme information.
Sponsorship & collaboration
Partnership, sponsorship, media collaboration, hospitality, education, in-kind support, or custom activation enquiries.
Send a message
Clear routes for every enquiry.
Use the form to contact Catalina Film Festival & Institute.
For film submission rules, categories, fees, deadlines, and notification dates, please check the official FilmFreeway page before contacting us. The submission platform should remain the source of truth for practical submission requirements.
For urgent festival-weekend questions, include as much context as possible, such as the event, venue, ticket type, order reference, or the name of the person attending.
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The fastest route depends on your question.
Some festival services are managed through official third-party platforms. Checking the right source first can save time and avoid conflicting information.
Use FilmFreeway first
For submission categories, fees, deadlines, notification dates, eligibility, and rules, please check the official FilmFreeway page before sending a message.
Submission guidanceCheck ticket details
For passes, event access, screening times, and festival attendance, review the official ticket and festival information pages.
Tickets & passesPlan around the island
Catalina travel, ferry timing, lodging, venue access, and mobile signal may require advance planning, especially during festival weekend.
Plan your visitPartnerships & press
For media, sponsors, and collaborators.
If you represent a publication, brand, venue, school, cultural organization, film company, community partner, or potential sponsor, please include your organization name and the type of collaboration you are interested in.
Partnership opportunities may include sponsorship, media collaboration, hospitality support, education programs, filmmaker awards, venue support, community initiatives, and year-round Institute programming.
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