Yo, LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT Heads to Tribeca!

ITVS and the Tribeca Film Institute will host a free screening of FUTURESTATES Season 3 at Tribeca Film Festival!

When: 

Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m. 

Where: 

Tribeca Cinemas

54 Varick Street 

Come join us in NYC for this special screening, followed by a Q&A with writer/director/cyborg Trevin Matcek (Life Begins at Rewirement) and other directors from the Futurestates series Jennifer Phang (Advantageous) and Patrick Stettner (Gunny). 

To attend, RSVP to rsvp@itvs.org.

SXSW

We love Austin. It's been great seeing a lot of the tech work descend upon the town to discover it at SXSW. Sadly, we can't stay for music this year but the interactive and film conferences have been a blast! Futurestates got some nice plugs during the panel, Prototyping the Future. 

Ray Kurzweil did a keynote speech earlier this week, which we live tweeted for Life Begins at Rewirement.

You can check out our SXSW coverage and follow the film for news & updates here:

@_lifebegins

Introducing LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT

At last, we're able to announce a project we're very proud of: Life Begins at Rewirement. Trevin was commissioned by PBS and ITVS last year to write and direct an original story set in the future for Futurestates series. From the PBS website:

If you were given a glimpse into the future, would it change the way you live today? Returning for a third season, the FUTURESTATES series offers a new collection of seven fictional shorts that explore possible future scenarios through the lens of today’s global realities.

Life Begins follows Simon Ender as he struggles with his decision to commit his 100-year-old mother to a revolutionary nursing home alternative where elderly minds are uploaded to databanks. 

We're thrilled to be part of this series. Check out the trailer! It's heartfelt sci-fi with sad robots, an estranged mother and son, poppy holograms, a suburban future and more. Our episode launches online May 15 as the season finale. 

Visit the website here.