SCION AV & VICE Launch Season 2 of Young Americans With Director Lance Bangs

[Tasya Swisko]

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SCION AV AND VICE LAUNCH SEASON TWO OF YOUNG AMERICANS
BY FILMMAKER LANCE BANGS

Series explores topics such as racial and cultural identity, sexuality and gender, body issues, and representation.

(New York, New York) - May 29, 2013 - Scion AV today premieres season two of Young Americans<http://bit.ly/116jO2L> in collaboration with VICE - an eight-part interview series about what's it's like to live as a young person in America today, as told straight from the source. After tackling issues that resonated in 2012, from college debt to social networking, season two of Young Americans sees the return of Producer/Director Lance Bangs and company as they travel across the nation to capture real viewpoints and opinions from today's youth.

In season two, ethnicity is the overarching lens through which Lance and his team focused in on some targeted topics such as body image, socializing and media representations. The end result was a documented survey of people from a wide array of ethnic communities hailing from all over the US.

In the first episode of season two, debuting on Scion AV's YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/scionav), we meet up with young Americans from coast to coast to discuss their multi-cultural roots.

PRESS HERE<http://bit.ly/116jO2L> to watch the first episode

Of the second season, director Lance Bangs says, "We spent months engaging in conversations with interesting young people across the country, and pushing further into people's sense of identity. These young people have complicated inner senses of self, and their external presentation can be radically different from how they exist in their own mind. To me, their overall tendency of evolving away from past generation's identity norms is fascinating."

"It's important for Scion to be in touch with what's going on in youth today," comments Jeri Yoshizu, manager of sales promotion at Scion. "We couldn't find anyone better than Lance Bangs to go out and capture such a variety of real, honest viewpoints."

PRESS HERE<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-formo/another-year-more-voices-_b_3333265.html> to read Lance Bangs' Huffington Post interview about Young Americans Season 2

Full airing schedule:
Wednesday, May 29th  - "Coming to America"
Wednesday, June 5th - "The Asian-American Experience"
Wednesday, June 12th - "Media Representations"
Wednesday, June 19th - "Body Image"
Wednesday, June 26th   - "LGBT"
Wednesday, July 3rd - "Socializing"
Wednesday, July 10th - "Cultural Stereotypes"
Wednesday, July 17th - "Where Are We Headed?

For more information, head to www.youtube.com/scionav<http://www.youtube.com/scionav>
About SCION AV
Scion AV is a creative enterprise of Scion devoted to the discovery, nurture, funding and distribution of compelling music and arts programming.  Scion AV has created and championed projects for over 100 underground musical artists, supported tours and special events, created film documentaries, curated art installations, and produced a collection of 'zines. In addition, Scion AV executes the annual Scion Music(less) Music Conference and operates 17 broadband radio stations via Scion Streaming Radio. For more information, visit ScionAV.com<http://www.scionav.com/>.

About VICE
VICE was launched in 1994 as a 'punk zine' and has since expanded into a leading global youth media company with bureaus in over 30 countries. VICE operates the world's premier original online video destination, VICE.COM<http://VICE.COM/>, an international network of digital channels, a television production studio, a magazine, a record label, an in-house creative services agency and a book-publishing division. VICE's digital channels include The Creators Project, dedicated to the arts and creativity, Motherboard, covering cultural happenings in technology, and Noisey, a music discovery channel. To date, VICE boasts over 60 established shows that cover everything from current events to sex to investigative reporting to music to kittens.


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