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Advantageous: A Future Friday Premiere

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ITVS 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 free by signing in with Facebook or directly on the site, interacting with other viewers and panelists in real-time, while watching the film. Viewers can comment, ask questions, take polls, and even express their feelings about what they’re watching through a variety of tools on the site. This is an entirely new way of experiencing documentary films and it is inherently social. Continue reading →

Season 3 of FUTURESTATES Underway with Advantageous

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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

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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