Futurestates (2010)
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... See full summary »
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Episode 1 - Beholder
Release Date: 14 Mar. 2011In a future where homosexuality is illegal, the perfect wife and mother-to-be discovers that her fetus carries the gay gene and must decide between staying faithful to the love of her life or risking everything.
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Episode 2 - Remigration
Release Date: 21 Mar. 2011Add a Plot
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Episode 3 - Asparagus
Release Date: 24 Mar. 2011Add a Plot
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Episode 4 - Spring of Sorrow
Release Date: Mar. 2011In this environmentally barren and hardscrabble future, teenage Isabel desperately offers hope to her eight-year-old sister Lily, by telling a fairy tale allegorically explaining how this tragic world came to be and its possible salvation by finding the "spring of sorrow."
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Episode 5 - Digital Antiquities
Release Date: 15 Apr. 2011In the year 2036, a woman at a data recovery store is visited by a young man who desperately needs to have a mysterious old CD read.
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Episode 6 - Exposure
Release Date: 22 Apr. 2011Add a Plot
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Episode 7 - The Dig
Release Date: 7 Apr. 2011Add a Plot
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Episode 8 - White
Release Date: 6 May 2011It's another sweltering 120-degree winter day with five more days to Christmas and hot is the only season left in New York City. Global warming has become a tangible threat to survival and everyone is creating new ways to protect themselves from the sun. Bato, an expecting father enters into a race against the sun, the birth, and his own identity to save his family as he is forced to sell the new currency of this world.
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Episode 9 - Worker Drone
Release Date: 14 Apr. 2011An Indian computer specialist, enlisted by an American company, competes in their combat simulator to secure a promotion - unaware of the game's dark secret.
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Episode 10 - That Which Once Was
Release Date: Mar. 2011In 2032 an eight-year old Caribbean boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an 'environmental refugee' in New York City. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver, who helps him confront his past.