Futurestates

When a bipolar patient abruptly stops taking his digitally encoded psych meds, a therapist named Ant (played by Guillermo Diaz) learns they are no panacea. The therapist must risk his life to avert catastrophe in this film by Tina Mabry that looks at the culture of mental health care in the future.

In 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.

A 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.

The host of a once-popular kid’s show clashes with child co-stars and disgruntled crew. The world’s changed and the show’s cautionary messages may no longer be needed. Can she adapt? A film by Greg Pak.

In the near future, an injured soldier returns home with advanced prosthetics to replace an arm and leg lost in combat, and must reconnect with family. A film by Trevin Matcek.

Can a new bartending robot help patrons drown their sorrows, all while keeping them from harming themselves? He soon learns his mission may be next to impossible. A film by Alex Rivera.

The 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stands to make millions for the corporation, a jaded teacher (played by Rebecca Hazlewood of TV’s Outsourced) — who’d been replaced by a digital avatar — is compelled to protect the girl's best interests.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.