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Announcing the FUTURESTATES Audience Award!
May 2, 2011You've watched the films. You've shared, commented, and liked. Maybe even loved. There have been ups and downs, laughter and tears. And this May, you get to decide who will take the laurels in our inaugural FUTURESTATES Audience Award. From today until May 30 at midnight, the race is on to launch your favorite FUTURESTATES film into hyperspace. Head back to…
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Go Back to the Future at the Tribeca Film Festival
April 23, 2011Catch a special FREE screening of FUTURESTATES Season Two on Saturday, April 23, at 2:30pm at the Clearview Cinema in Chelsea, New York City. ITVS and Tribeca All Access host a free screening of shorts from the second season of FUTURESTATES on Saturday, April 23, at 2:30pm at the Clearview Cinema in Chelsea. This year’s selection, listed below,…
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FUTURESTATES Short Takes a Simmering Glimpse into New York's Future
April 11, 2011The short by filmmaker A. Sayeeda Clarke is streaming free today on FUTURESTATES.tv. The short White takes place amid a 120-degree December day in New York City. With no money to pay for medical care for his pregnant wife, Bato races against the sun to save his family. Watch the film and other sci-fi shorts from the second season of FUTURESTATES today. Plus,…
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Future Fridays Presents Suzi Yoonessi
April 8, 2011The filmmaker’s short Spring of Sorrow is streaming Friday on PBS.org. Director Suzi Yoonessi describes how the environmental reality of Mono Lake informs her futuristic fairy tale and how she used the Persian stories from her childhood to bring a cautionary tale about climate change to life. Watch Spring of Sorrow now on PBS.org as part of Future Fridays.…
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A Love Story Set Within an Environmental Nightmare
April 7, 2011Filmmaker Bennett Cohen sets his FUTURESTATES short The Dig on the verge of an environmental collapse. The film is streaming free today on FUTURESTATES.tv. As the world faces an environmental apocalypse, a group of archaeologists venture into a toxic desert wasteland, determined to unearth a lost civilization. Can this ancient disaster help them…