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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">SCION AV AND <i>VICE
</i>LAUNCH NEW SERIES <i>YOUNG AMERICANS <o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">BY FILMMAKER LANCE BANGS</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Venturing across the United States to get the youth's take on the direction of our country and their place within it<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">(New York, NY) - December 11,
<span style="color:black">2012 </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black">–
<b>Scion AV</b> has launched <b><i>Young Americans</i> </b>in collaboration with <b>
<i>VICE </i></b>– an eight-part series about what really went down in 2012 and what young people had to say about it. Filmmaker
<b>Lance Bangs,</b> and company, traveled across the United States talking to hundreds of young adults about
</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">their hopes, fears, concerns and frustrations. From parking lots, backyards, offices, protest sites, parks, couches, and convenience stores a wide range of underrepresented voices and viewpoints emerged.<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
<i>Young Americans</i>, debuting on Scion AV’s YouTube Channel (<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/scionav">http://www.youtube.com/scionav</a></b>), we meet with a handful of young adults from across the country to find out how they spent their summers.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/scionav">PRESS HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""> to WATCH the first episode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Future episodes will include young people's take on the economy, the American Dream, social media, higher education and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Of the series, director Lance Bangs says, "I began the shoots feeling a sense of detachment and frustration from many of the young people I was meeting and filming,
who were largely concerned with navigating a stressed financial landscape. As my travels went on and the election year backdrop ramped up, people became more engaged in conversations about the direction of the country and carving out their own place within
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<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 A/V 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 A/V 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">www.ScionAV.com</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
<i>VICE</i></span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">VICE </span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">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.
<i>VICE</i> operates the world’s premier original online video destination, <a href="http://www.VICE.com">www.VICE.com</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. <i>VICE</i>’s digital channels include <i>
The Creators Project</i>, dedicated to the arts and creativity, <i>Motherboard</i>, covering cultural happenings in technology, and<b><i>
</i></b><i>Noisey</i>, a music discovery channel. To date, <i>VICE</i> 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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<b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">For press inquiries on</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">
<b><i>Young Americans</i></b> <b>please contact:<br>
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Tasya Swisko // <a href="mailto:tasya@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank">tasya@pressherepublicity.com</a>
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