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Engadget Announces Series Launch of 'Citizen Mars'Engadget announced today that its upcoming digital video series, CITIZEN MARS, will launch on September 1st 2015. The docu-series is the first of its kind to feature personal stories and first-person accounts from those competing to secure a real-life seat- and one-way ticket- on MARS One to explore and colonize Mars. CITIZEN MARS follows five individuals as they prepare for the opportunity to be part of the Mars One mission that aims to land the first humans on the Red Planet and establish a permanent human colony there by 2027. For those who are chosen, it will be the adventure of a lifetime, but it's also a one-way trip -- they will never return to Earth. Through interviews and an in-depth look at these everyday people from around the world, CITIZEN MARS sheds light on the obsession with the future, adventure and space, that's propelling these contestants to leave everything-and everyone-behind…forever. "CITIZEN MARS is reflective of the new Engadget. We're putting a big emphasis on video and bringing high-quality episodic content and great story telling to our viewers," said Michael Gorman (News - Alert), Editor-in-Chief of Engadget, "There's a tremendous amount of interest in the Mars One project and many are skeptical about the mission's feasibility which is why we thought it an important story to tell, and why the subjects involved are so compelling." "Engadget is that brand that takes the future and tells us about it, as they do with CITIZEN MARS," said Dermot McCormack, President of AOL (News - Alert) Video and AOL Studios. "Which is why we are so excited to introduce this one-of-a-kind show that continues to showcase how incredibly brave these candidates are and the impact technology has on all of our lives." The series subjects include: Sue Ann Pien: a 35-year-old who works at a small tech company and lives in Los Angeles with her partner, Cynthia Catania, a singer-songwriter. An avid rock climber and world traveler, Sue Ann has been fascinated by space since she was a little girl and even has a tattoo of the solar system on her skull. Mohammed Sallam: a 32-year-old who lives in Cairo with his younger brother, Marwan. Mohammed, aka Mido, works at a life-insurance company and plays professional basketball for a team in Egypt. His parents and youngest brother were killed in a car accident when Mido was seventeen and Marwan was thirteen. Pietro Aliprandi: a 25-year-old who lives in Trieste, Italy. He recently completed medical school and is now training to be a psychiatrist. He has also written an unpublished novel and produced a feature-length film that was never distributed. He is very close with his parents, who live in Conegliano, not far from Venice. Adriana Marais: a 31-year-old who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Arguably the most qualified of the series' Mars One candidates, Adriana recently completed a Ph.D. in quantum biology, and she has an encyclopedic knowledge of space exploration. Shradha Prasad: a 19-year-old who lives in Coimbatore, India. She sleeps in the same bed as her mother, Geetha, who fled an abusive husband to make sure Shradha would be able to go to university and pursue her dreams. Shradha is a mechanical-engineering student, and she loves go-karts. CITIZEN MARS will premiere with a total of five episodes airing at engadget.com/citizen-mars. TRAILER URL: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/20/citizen-mars-trailer/ KEY ART: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hgeorq7u480jb3q/AADbWTlQbvnzqpw1jUxksYwsa?dl=0 For more information and upcoming news on Citizen Mars and other AOL Original series follow us @AolOriginals on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr. ABOUT AOL AOL is a media technology company with a mission to simplify the Internet for consumers and creators by unleashing the world's best builders of culture and code. As the 4th largest online property in the U.S., with approximately 200 million monthly consumers of its premium brands, AOL is at the center of disruption of how content is being produced, distributed, consumed and monetized by connecting publishers with advertisers on its global, programmatic content and advertising platforms. AOL's opportunity lies in shaping the future of the digitally connected world for decades to come. Follow @AolOriginals on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr for more upcoming news about Connected and other AOL Original Series. ABOUT ENGADGET Engadget is the definitive guide to this connected life. Technology isn't all about bits and processors. It's the car with no driver, human organs printed in a lab and leisurely flights into space. It's the future and we're here to tell you all about it. Since 2004, Engadget has exhaustively covered cutting edge devices and the technology that powers them. As we enter our second decade, we're looking beyond the gadgets themselves to explore how they impact our lives. ABOUT STATELESS MEDIA Stateless Media produces movies about real people for the web. Stateless Media produces movies for the web about real people. We believe that all news can be made into cinema and that boundaries between news and entertainment are conventional. The best stories live somewhere in between. They are stateless. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150820005258/en/ |
