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FutureStates
2010 - 2014 5.5 (2 votes) 4 Seasons
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Genres
Drama
Networks
PBS

FutureStates

Overview

What will become of America in five, 25, or even 50 years from today? This series of independent mini-features explores possible future scenarios through the prism of today’s global realities. Immerse yourself in the visions of these independent prognosticators as they inhabit a future of their own imagining.

Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

No overview available.

11 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Other Side
2010-03-08

A family struggles to escape a stark economic wasteland in hopes of immigrating illegally to a new land of opportunity.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 2: Seed
2010-03-08

In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 3: The Rise
2010-03-08

In the radically altered housing market of the future, an older couple must forego their dreams of retirement and adapt to the ever-evolving definition of the American dream.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 4: Tia and Marco
2010-03-08

When a pregnant border patrol agent discovers an illegal immigrant child hiding in her home, she is forced to question her loyalty to a system of exclusion.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 5: Tent City
2010-03-08

In a world where housing is granted only to the powerful few, a father who makes his living evicting the powerless must choose between his responsibilities and his moral principles.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 6: Silver Sling
2010-03-08

In the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer incentives to their high-ranking female employees to pay for surrogate pregnancies and chemically accelerated births.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 7: Plastic Bag
2010-03-08

Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 8: Play
2010-03-08

Society's obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 9: PIA
2010-03-08

When a woman in mourning encounters a mysterious wandering service android, she is forced to redefine its conceptions of humanity, relationships, and family.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 10: Mister Green
2010-03-08

In this parable about change, a jaded government undersecretary becomes the unwitting test subject for an experimental program to curb global warming.

Runtime: 12 min
Episode 11: Fallout
2010-03-08

Los Angeles has fallen victim to a nuclear attack from an unknown aggressor. In the aftermath of the bombing, a young man's search for his girlfriend highlights the human toll of eternal war.

Runtime: 12 min

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