Local Filmmaker’s Award-Winning Philip K. Dick Adaptation to Have Downtown Debut
Long before filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan overused the “twist ending,” author Philip K. Dick had mastered the art of storytelling subterfuge with iconic science fiction shorts and novels in the mid-20th century. Many of those classic stories have been adapted into some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. From Blade Runner and Total Recall to Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau, Dick’s paranoid visions of dystopian futures have translated well into motion pictures.
It’s no surprise, then, that there’s an entire film festival inspired by the author’s work, the aptly named Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, which held its second annual event at IndieScreen in Brooklyn last month. What might be surprising, however, is that the winner of this year’s Best Philip K. Dick Short award, The Crystal Crypt, was directed by Las Vegas-based filmmaker Shahab Zargari. His film will have its Las Vegas debut on January 18 with a screening and Q&A session at Cockroach Theatre in Art Square.
