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Futurestates Transmedia Project Featured in Mashable
April 6, 2012Transmedia producer Lance Weiler's Futurestates project, Wish for the Future, is the second part of a trilogy entitled Reboot Stories, an experiential learning project designed to empower the imaginations of disenfranchised students. Reboot Stories is pushing the boundaries of traditional learning by incorporating technology and multimedia…
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Advantageous: A Future Friday Premiere
April 6, 2012ITVS presents a social screening of FUTURESTATES: Advantageous. This event will take place online Friday, April 6 at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. Join us for a social screening of FUTURESTATES Episode 1: Advantageous with filmmaker Jennifer Phang, who will be taking part in the screening to talk about the film and take your questions live. Participants can join for…
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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…