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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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Tribeca Film Festival Underway in NYC
April 20, 2011The Tribeca Film Festival gets started today in New York and runs until May 1. The festival was founded in 2002 as a response to the events of 9/11, to help Lower Manhattan recover after the tragedy, and to celebrate the vitality and diversity of New York City through filmmaking. Each year ITVS participates in the festival by meeting with filmmakers involved…
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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…