FUTURESTATES
Season 3 of FUTURESTATES Underway with Advantageous
Directed 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. Learn more about Advantageous from director Jennifer Phang in a recently-conducted Skype interview, after the jump.
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Screening of FUTURESTATES at the Tribeca Film Festival
ITVS 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 scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent filmmakers as they inhabit a future of their own imagining.
The screening will take place on Saturday, April 21 at 2PM at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street) in New York City, followed by a Q&A with many of the FUTURESTATES filmmakers, including Jennifer Phang (Advantageous), Patrick Stettner (Gunny), and Trevin Matcek (Life Begins at Rewirement).
To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@itvs.org
Revealing Visions of Tomorrow’s America… in 24 Minutes or Less
Season three of FUTURESTATES debuts April 3, 2012 on FUTURESTATES.tv, PBS.org, and PBS iPhone and iPad apps. Join filmmakers and actors from the series in an online press conference held here live on Thursday at 11AM PT / 2PM ET.
What will happen to our families, our rights, and our economy in the not-so-distant future? These are just some of the questions explored in the third season of FUTURESTATES, an online series of sci-fi shorts set to launch April 3, 2012. Produced by ITVS, FUTURESTATES presents narratives created by established filmmakers and emerging talents that transform today’s complex social issues into visions about what life in America will be like in decades to come. The shorts will be available for free via streaming video on futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org, and PBS iPhone and iPad applications. › Continue reading
FUTURESTATES Season 3: Online Press Conference
Join us on Thursday, March 22 at 11AM PT / 2PM ET for a live, online press conference to discuss the upcoming, third season of FUTURESTATES. Moderated by series manager Karim Ahmad, the panel will include
• Jennifer Phang, Filmmaker (Advantageous)
• Jacqueline Kim, Actor (Advantageous)
• Mo Perkins, Filmmaker (Laura Keller — NB)
• Amber Benson, Actor (Laura Keller – NB)
ITVS Attends MEG 2012 in Göteborg, Sweden
By Claire Aguilar
Vice President of Programming, ITVS
ITVS held court at the inaugural MEG 2012 conference, an event focused on creative approaches to content development, journalism, and entertainment.
On March 8th and 9th, I attended a new conference: Mediedagarna i Göteborg (Media Days Göteborg) or “MEG” for short. MEG was designed to attract media professionals from television, newspaper, magazine, and book publishing industries to participate in a truly trans-media conference. It was refreshing to see the overlap between the usually traditional media industries, like publishing, print and electronic journalism, and broadcast television interacting with citizen journalists, bloggers, and even webisode comedy. › Continue reading
A FUTURESTATES Wish For The Future
By Jonathan Archer
It’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 transmedia producer Lance Weiler (founder of Workbook Project and DIY DAYS). Wish For The Future mixes participatory storytelling and design science to envision a better world, seeking to answer the question posed by R. Buckminster Fuller, “How do we make the world work for 100 percent of humanity?” As you can tell, we like to set small goals at FUTURESTATES… › Continue reading
FUTURESTATES Returns! Seven Visions of the Future from Seven Cutting-Edge Indie Filmmakers
If you were given a glimpse into the future, would it change the way you live today? Returning for a third season, the FUTURESTATES series offers a new collection of seven fictional shorts that explore possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities.
Produced by ITVS and created by such established filmmakers as Patrick Stettner, Jennifer Phang, and Tina Mabry — as well as emerging talents — FUTURESTATES films launch April 3, 2012, and will be available to stream for free at futurestates.tv and simultaneously on pbs.org.
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2011 FUTURESTATES Audience Award Winner on the Big Screen in NYC
In partnership with Telegraph21 and Icarus Films, ITVS is pleased to announce an evening dedicated to the 2011 FUTURESTATES Audience Award Winner Kimi Takesue at the Big Screen Plaza in NYC on Friday, August 19th from 5- 7PM.
The evening will start with the 2011 FUTURESTATES Audience Award-winning film, That Which Once Was, followed by a screening of Takesue’s latest documentary, Where Are You Taking Me. The filmmaker will be present at the screenings.
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ITVS in the News
A sampling of coverage from Indiewire, Pop Matters, NCME and more…
Indiewire: Two Spirits Receives the Audience Award from PBS-Independent Lens
Lynda Nibley’s documentary Two Spirits has received the PBS-Independent Lens Audience Award, recognizing its status as the highest-rated film of the 2010-11 season by the measures of online voting and other forms of audience support.
Pop Matters: Cuba, An African Odyssey
El-Tahri’s fascinating documentary, produced in 2007 with the French-German television network Arte and premiering in two parts on ITVS’ Global Voices this month, traces the complicated history of Cuban efforts to help African independence movements during the Cold War.
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Peek into the Future with Fresh FUTURESTATES Predictions
Forecast future events and explore the predictions left by others on the FUTURESTATES Predict-O-Meter.
Find your shades … it’s getting bright around here!
The producers of FUTURESTATES have launched brand new predictions … think of these as “forward stories” (as opposed to “back”). Just fire up the Predict-O-Meter and take a walk down Premonition Lane to see what’s ahead.
And that’s not all…Check back on the FUTURESTATES site in the weeks to come to cast your vote in our Predict-O-Meter poll, where you get to vote on which prediction is most likely to come true and find out how you can join a live online event with the winning filmmaker.
Don’t get left in the past! Follow FUTURESTATES on Twitter and Facebook. Watch the trailer after the jump >>
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