Futurestates
Temporada 5
Imagining tomorrow's America today, "Futurestates" is a series of independent mini-features--short narrative films created by established filmmakers and emerging talents transforming today's complex social issues into visions about what life in America will be like in decades to come.
Onde assistir Futurestates • Temporada 5
7 episódios
- Code AcademyE2
Code AcademyIn the future, the gender disparity gap will be addressed with a radical idea: to keep boys and girls separate until the age of eighteen. In this society, The Equal Futures Academies for Girls and for Boys were formed to re-educate the two genders without the inherent biases of society. Expert hackers “The Girls Who Code” find a way to interact with the boys through a secret cyberspace hook-up point and trouble ensues. Code Academy is a peek into the inner world of adolescence, gender identity formation, and the role of cyberspace in this tumultuous time of growth. A film by Nisha Ganatra. - ExcarceratedE3
ExcarceratedA young man convicted of a violent crime is released into a community service-based alternative to incarceration, but he isn’t especially free. He must remain connected at all times to virtual surveillance, where his every move is tracked and his attempt to reconcile the past is constantly thwarted. A film by Aldo Velasco. - Teacher in a BoxE7
Teacher in a BoxThe School for Innovation was founded by a corporation determined to rebound the national economy by teaching design thinking to teenagers, and then putting the most promising prototypes into production. When an abused teenage girl develops a design for a new product that stands to make millions for the corporation, a jaded teacher (played by Rebecca Hazlewood of TV’s Outsourced) — who’d been replaced by a digital avatar — is compelled to protect the girl's best interests. A film by Tanuj Sachdev Chopra.
