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Expose Yourself to FUTURESTATES
April 4, 2011Filmmaker Mia Trachinger’s sci-fi short Expsoure is streaming free on FUTURESTATES.tv. Roxanne Green's first job of the day is as a live-body contagion for the government, used to immunize urban populations. Can Roxanne's team of human contagions contain some uninfected workers inside their office building long enough to inoculate them? See for…
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Barry Jenkins Brings FUTURESTATES to SF
April 2, 2011Last week ITVS, KQED, and Public Works hosted more than 150 sci-fi fans to ring in the second season of FUTURESTATES. The San Francisco based organizations celebrated their fellow Bay Area filmmaker Barry Jenkins and his short Remigration. In the clip below, Barry summarizes the evening for BTB fans who were unable to attend… Filmmaker Robby Henson’s…
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In J.P. Chan’s FUTURESTATES, Digital Lives in the Clouds
March 31, 2011Filmmaker J.P. Chan’s short Digital Antiquities is streaming free, starting today on FUTURESTATES.tv. Think your CD collection is out of date? Welcome to 2036 where data loss has become a thing of the past and all digital media is permanently stored on cloud servers scattered round the world. Digital Antiquities follows one man’s pursuit to recover…
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FUTURESTATES Launch Party is Tonight!
March 30, 2011ITVS, KQED, and Public Works invite you to attend the SF launch party to ring in the second season of FUTURESTATES The event will feature screenings of Asparagus by Robby Henson, and Remigration by Barry Jenkins, two new episodes from the series. San Francisco’s award-winning writer and director Barry Jenkins will be on hand to participate in a Q&A…
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FUTURESTATES’ Spring of Sorrow Now Available Online
March 28, 2011The short by Suzi Yoonessi is streaming free on FUTURESTATES.TV. The original online series FUTURESTATES continues its online release this week with the short Spring of Sorrow. The story follows two sisters who lead a nomadic life after being displaced by global warming. Trapped in the desert in the midst of a water shortage, Isabelle tells her younger…