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Season 3 of FUTURESTATES Underway with Advantageous
April 3, 2012Directed by Jennifer Phang the film will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org. An online social screening of the short will take place here this Friday at 11am PT / 2pm ET. The film follows Gwen — a spokesperson for a radical technology allowing people to overcome their natural disadvantages and begin life anew.…
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FUTURESTATES Episode Caps PBS Online Shorts Festival
March 28, 2012In the fifth and final week of the inaugural Online Shorts Festival, PBS will be wrapping up with Play, a mind-bending short film from the ITVS web series FUTURESTATES.Play, written and directed by David Kaplan and game designer Eric Zimmerman, imagines a not-too-distant future where video games have become indistinguishable from reality. It was a fan…
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Screening of FUTURESTATES at the Tribeca Film Festival
March 27, 2012ITVS and the Tribeca Film Institute will be hosting a free screening of FUTURESTATES Season 3 on Saturday, April 21 at 2pm in New York City. What will be of America in 5, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of independent mini-features, short narrative films created by established filmmakers and emerging talents, explores possible future…
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PBS Brings 'Sunshine' to Online Film Festival
March 22, 2012The PBS Online Film Festival features 20 unique short films in various categories. From 'Girl Power' to 'Offbeat' and everywhere in between, PBS highlights the stories that only public media can tell. Watch Sunshine: Single Dads on PBS. See more from PBS Online Film Festival.Dig deep into your roots and welcome diversity with this week's 'Who Are…
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A FUTURESTATES Wish For The Future
March 9, 2012It's time for SXSW and the buzz-heavy festival is ramping up this weekend with thousands attendees, and hundreds of panels, meet ups, screenings, and more. FUTURESTATES is hosting a panel called Prototyping the Future, where we'll be announcing an exciting new project.FUTURESTATES is co-producing a new participatory storytelling project from…