Radio Free Albemuth

Directed By John Alan Simon
Based on the novel by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly). Depicting a dystopian society, Radio Free Albemuth follows the awakening of the protagonist, Nicholas Brady, by visions communicated from a satellite of unknown origins. Under guidance from these visions, Nic begins to rise up against the fascist government masquerading as the United States of America. In an alternate reality circa 1985, President Ferris F. Fremont, a Richard Nixon clone, is still in the White House chasing after the shadowy terrorist organization called Aramchek. In the name of security the U.S. has become a police state. A record store clerk in Berkeley named Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) begins to have visions and embarks upon a plot to overthrow the government with the help of a mysterious woman named Sylvia (Alanis Morissette) and his best friend, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick himself (Shea Whigham).