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 - Elliot King Is Third
Release Date: 24 Apr. 2013Add a Plot
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Episode 2 - Refuge
Release Date: 1 May 2013Sonia, a young Iranian journalism student and social activist, has recently fled to the US in hopes of an education and a better life. But when an escalating cyber-conflict between the US and Iran puts her at risk of deportation, her only way of staying may come at a greater price than she's willing to pay.
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Episode 3 - Promised Land
Release Date: Apr. 2013Three generations of reckless and unsustainable development have transformed the future environment into an almost total wasteland. Refugees from the future have found a way to return to the past, but the impact on present-day resources and fear of these 'immigrants' has led to the formation of citizen watch groups, who are determined to stop these time-travelers at any cost. Jackson, the teenage son of one of these bounty hunters, is enlisted into his first patrol -- eventually forcing him into a brutal choice between his father's principles and his own sense of ...
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Episode 4 - Return to Elektra Springs
Release Date: 15 May 2013A tsunami forces a retired inventor and his son to evacuate their home on the remote Oregon coast. Making their way inland, they encounter a pioneering community that leads the inventor to reconsider returning to his work in free energy.
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Episode 5 - The Living
Release Date: 1 Apr. 2013Add a Plot
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Episode 6 - Hollow
Release Date: Apr. 2013In the near future, information on the web is no longer secure, but NeuroLock Corporation has found a way to encrypt and guard data using the human brain. Iris, young and employed, must choose between her bleak prospects and well-paid work as a 'Neuro-Messenger,' a career with some serious side effects.
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Episode 7 - Children of the Northern Lights
Release Date: 5 Jun. 2013Two astronauts, husband and wife, crash on a distant moon. The woman is killed in the crash, but her body is reanimated by an alien being who appears as a glowing ball of light. The alien could offer a chance at survival for both of them, but at great cost.