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<b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">SCION AV AND VICE LAUNCH SEASON TWO OF
<i>YOUNG AMERICANS</i> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">BY FILMMAKER LANCE BANGS</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Series explores topics such as racial and cultural identity, sexuality and gender, body issues, and representation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">(New York, New York) – May 29, 2013
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">– <b>Scion AV</b> today premieres season two of
<b><i><a href="http://bit.ly/116jO2L">Young Americans</a></i></b><i> </i>in collaboration with
<b>VICE</b> – 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.<i>
</i><span style="color:black">After tackling issues that resonated in 2012, from college debt to social networking, season two of
<i>Young Americans</i> sees the return of Producer/Director <b>Lance Bangs</b> and company as they travel across the nation to capture real viewpoints and opinions from today’s youth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">In the first episode of season two, debuting on Scion AV’s YouTube Channel (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/scionav">http://www.youtube.com/scionav</a>), we meet
<span style="color:black">up with young Americans from coast to coast to discuss their multi-cultural roots.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://bit.ly/116jO2L">PRESS HERE</a> to watch the first episode
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">"It’s important for Scion to be in touch with what’s going on in youth today,” comments
<b>Jeri Yoshizu</b>, 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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-formo/another-year-more-voices-_b_3333265.html">PRESS HERE</a> to read Lance Bangs’
<i>Huffington Post</i> interview about <i>Young Americans</i> Season 2 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Full airing schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, May 29<sup>th</sup> – “Coming to America”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, June 5<sup>th</sup> – “The Asian-American Experience”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, June 12<sup>th
</sup>– “Media Representations”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, June 19<sup>th
</sup>– “Body Image”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, June 26<sup>th </sup>– “LGBT”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, July 3<sup>rd
</sup>– “Socializing”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, July 10<sup>th</sup> – “Cultural Stereotypes”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Wednesday, July 17<sup>th</sup> – “Where Are We Headed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For more information, head to
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/scionav">www.youtube.com/scionav</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">About SCION AV<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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
<a href="http://www.scionav.com/"><span style="color:windowtext">ScionAV.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">About VICE</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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, <a href="http://VICE.COM/"><span style="color:windowtext">VICE.COM</span></a>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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