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LINCOLN CENTER ‘INDIE NIGHT’ SERIES SCREENS RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH

May 8th, 2013
Indie Films, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

Radio Free Albemuth has been invited to screen at the prestigious Indie Night Series at Lincoln Center. With a Q and A after the screening with Writer/Director John Alan Simon about adapting Philip K. Dick’s novel to the screen.

Tuesday, June 4th at 8:30PM

Francesca Beale Theater
ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER

Film Society of Lincoln Center

New York City

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RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH at BELFAST FILM FESTIVAL

April 13th, 2013
Film Festivals, Indie Films, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

At QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE, Saturday, April 13 at 7: pm. Followed by Filmmaker Q + A with writer/director John Alan Simon.

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John Alan Simon Seminar at Belfast Film Festival

April 13th, 2013
Film Festivals, Indie Films, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

Radio Free Albemuth Director highlighted in Belfast Film Festival Industry Events.

Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 3 pm.

Practical Independent Filmmaking Workshop by award winning Radio Free Albemuth writer/director/producer John Alan Simon covering production, distribution and marketing across new technologies. Learning traditional and new media techniques in marketing and distribution of television and film content. Only 35 places available so please book in advance.

Radio Free Albemuth is hailed by Variety as an “engrossing adaption, well performed, that should connect strongly with Philip K. Dick’s fanbase and attract upscale audiences seeking Sci-Fi with political and philosophical substance.” As president and chief executive officer of Discovery Productions, Simon has been involved with the production, financing, sales, distribution and marketing of studio films like The Getaway and many successful independent features including Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper), The Wicker Man (starring Edward Woodward); The Haunting of Julia (with Mia Farrow and Tom Conti) and many others. For the last four years, he has produced and moderated BAFTA/LA’s annual seminars for the American Film Market, on such topics as British filmmaking tax-incentives, low-budget production, adaptation and strategies for theatrical distribution.

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Top Award – Best Science Fiction Feature Film – The Philip K. Dick Film Festival

April 13th, 2013
Film Festivals, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

Radio Free Albemuth takes home another award – BEST SCIENCE FICTION FEATURE FILM at The Philip K. Dick Film Festival in New York City, December 9, 2012.

Director John Alan Simon accepting ‘ Best Science Fiction Feature Film’ at PKD Film Festival, NYC, Dec. 9, 2012. With Dan Abella, Festival Director.

Philip K. Dick Film Festival 2012 Award Receipients

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Opening Night Film at The Philip K. Dick Festival – NYC: RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH

November 17th, 2012
Film Festivals, Indie Films, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

FRIDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 7 at 7:30 pm. Red Carpet Gala. Q+A with John Alan Simon

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“The Philip K Dick Film Festival opens its 2012 season with Radio Free Albemuth the masterful adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novel. Radio Free Albemuth was directed by John Alan Simon (producer of the Getaway) and stars Shea Wigham (Boardwalk Empire) , Jonathan Scarfe ( Savages), Katheryn Winnick (Love and other drugs) and Alanis Morrisette.” – THE PHILIP K DICK FESTIVAL

Indiescreen Cinema

289 Kent Avenue, New York, NY 11211 (Brooklyn)

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WHY PHILIP K. DICK MATTERS

October 4th, 2012
Film Festivals, Interviews, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

Philip K Dick Fans gathered in San Francisco to celebrate the SciFi Visionary at the Philip K Dick Festival. Three days of salons, seminars and a special screening of Radio Free Albemuth.

How is it that one writer has such an impact on literature and Hollywood?

The Verge team interviewed Radio Free Albemuth director John Alan Simon, noted novelist Jonathan Lethem, who with Pamela Jackson edited PKD’s writings The Exegesis, and David Gill, of Total DickHead website, in search of the answer.

Watch the video on YouTube.

Read the full article at The Verge: “More Human Than Human: How Philip K Dick Can Change Your Life.” by Jesse Hicks

Watch the video on The Verge.

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RFA at PHILIP K. DICK FESTIVAL - San Francisco

August 25th, 2012
Film Festivals, Indie Films, John Alan Simon, Philip K. Dick

RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH is the centerpiece of Philip K. Dick Festival in San Francisco, September 22 – 23, 2012.

Special Screening of RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH

Saturday, September 22, 8 pm

Post screening Discussion with writer/director

John Alan Simon.

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The Bay Area, home to Philip K. Dick for the majority of his lifetime, is the perfect location for the event, allowing fans and scholars to step into Dick’s own past and retrace his steps in this vibrant city by the bay. Sept 22-23, 2012 will be a weekend long celebration and examination of Dick’s life and work with attendees from all over the world.

The conference’s guest of honor will be none other than Jonathan Lethem, the editor for Philip K Dick’s three volumes from the prestigious Library of America, an editor of The Exegesis of Philip K Dick (from Houghton Mifflin), and a celebrated novelist in his own right. Lethem currently holds the Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing at Pomona College and his writing about Philip K Dick appears in his essay collections The Disappointment Artist, and The Ecstasy of Influence.

Other confirmed guests include: Pam Jackson (Editor, Philip K Dick’s Exegesis), Erik Davis (Annotations Editor for the recent publication of The Exegesis), John Alan Simon (director of Radio Free Albemuth), Sam Umland (Chair of English Department at University of Nebraska Kearney and author of Contemporary Critical Interpretations: Philip K Dick), Douglas Mackey (author of Philip K Dick, Twayne’s United States Author Series), Umberto Rossi (independent scholar and author ofThe Twisted Worlds of Philip K Dick), Marc Haefele (an Assistant Editor at Doubleday who worked with Philip K Dick on his masterpiece novels Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), William Sarill (a longtime friend of Philip K Dick who helped Dick develop the religious system in his novel A Maze of Death), and many, many more.

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