
Director Ian Stout and his crew labored hard over three weeks, between classes and study to build a futuristic film set for their short film, Utopia, which will be showing at the Hollywood Theatre June 14th 2012.
Utopia is a film about Trans Human Enterprises, a company who, while celebrating their success in assimilating Max, a lab rat, into a highly experimental computer program - their lead biotech receieves news that her fiance' has been in a brutal motorcycle accident. In a last stitch effort to save him, they recklessly leap forward in their research as they rush to upload his conscious mind into the machine. Evelyn is now faced with an ethical dlemma far greater than anyone could have anticipated.
Ian Stout is a talented director who is currently working towards earning his BFA at The Art Institute of Portland for Digital Film and Video. Utopia is his senior thesis film. Utilizing both local actors and local crew Utopia is a great look into what a motivated group of filmmakers can pull off on a micro budget!