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The ITVS Indies Roundup
A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS’s Rebecca Huval.
Get your creativity on! Longshot Radio and Radiolab talked about creativity, revision, and failure at the 99% Conference in New York City last week. For your listening pleasure, they compiled their editors’ picks of podcasts from the event.
Behold the TV of the future: using an iPad as a remote, you can control the features that appear on your screen and the overall size, which can stretch the length of your living room wall. Wired claims this is just “what the TV industry needs to stay relevant.”
“I want a man like Putin, who doesn’t drink. I want a man like Putin, who won’t make me sad.” These are the actual lyrics to a Russian pop song. This gem is explained in the new PBS show SOUND TRACKS that will broadcast in Fall 2012. Until then, you can watch their series on the web to learn the political and cultural stories behind music around the world.
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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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Go Back to the Future at the Tribeca Film Festival
Catch a special FREE screening of FUTURESTATES Season Two on Saturday, April 23rd at 2:30PM at the Clearview Cinema in Chelsea, NYC
ITVS and Tribeca All Access host a free screening of shorts from the second season of FUTURESTATES on Saturday, April 23rd at 2:30PM at the Clearview Cinema in Chelsea. This year’s selection, listed below, highlights Tribeca All Access alumni as well as emerging New York filmmaking talent:
Future Fridays Presents Suzi Yoonessi
The 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.
A Love Story Set Within an Environmental Nightmare
Filmmaker 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 avert their own ruin? Watch The Dig today, and find other shorts from the second season of the online original series FUTURESTATES.
In J.P. Chan’s FUTURESTATES, Digital Lives in the Clouds
Filmmaker 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 archival footage that will help answer important questions about his family history. Watch the film by J.P. Chan, streaming free on FUTURESTATES.tv.
Asparagus Sprouts Only on FUTURESTATES
Filmmaker Robby Henson’s short Asparagus is streaming free beginning today on FUTURESTATES.TV.
The original online series FUTURESTATES launched its second season last week at SXSW and will release films for free online over the next several weeks.
See the trailer for Henson’s films below, which follows one introverted agricultural engineer as he finds love among genetically modified crops. Watch the full version of Asparagus,streaming free online. Enjoy!
FUTURESTATES Website Now Live
ITVS online series will premiere at SXSW Film Festival
The FUTURESTATES website is live and running, as the online series premieres its second season next month at the SXSW Film Festival. Season two kicks off with Nisha Ganatra’s Beholder, which offers a futuristic portrayal on one socially conservative community known as Red Estates. Enjoy the above filmmaker discussion led by FUTURESTATES Series Manager Karim Ahmad.
Stories of Immigration Now Available Online
Two ITVS films, both of which aired this season on Global Voices, are no available to own online. Paper Words by filmmaker Joyce Lee and Point of Entry by filmmaker Zeus Quijano each take an intimate look around immigration issues.
3-D animated film Paper Words by filmmaker Joyce Lee
Paper Words is a 3-D animated short which tells the story of a bright 5-year-old from China who uses her imagination to cope with her new life in a small, Midwestern town.
In Point of Entry, we meet Carlos, an undocumented immigrant living in the U.S. with his wife and two children. At 15, Carlos came to America and left his life and family behind in Mexico. Now Carlos is 30 and continues to send money home to his family.
ITVS Funded Filmmakers Oscar Nominations for Short Documentary
The Oscar buzz is in the air! Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their 2010 nominees, which included the ITVS film The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers for Best Documentary Feature. Also, Independent Lens host Maggie Gyllenhaal received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the feature film Crazy Heart.
Several previously funded ITVS filmmakers received nominations for their work in the category of short documentary.
- China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill)
- The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher)
- The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)
Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar produced A Lion In The House; Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher made Iron Ladies of Liberia; and Jon Alpert made The Last Cowboy. All three films aired on Independent Lens on PBS.
The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7. Stay tuned to Beyond the Box for further coverage. Congratulations and good luck to all the filmmakers!
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