Jon S. Alon: Author, film/theatre journalist and filmmaker.

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Saludos, mis hermanos Latinos, hermanas Latinas de Estados Unidos. BEvangelist-Christian convert (for love), tracing proud Castilian "Sefardi" family roots to Toledo-Spain and Algeria, Israeli born Jon S. Alon grew up as a teen among Sicilians in Brooklyn where he immigrated at age of 13. High school dropout, IDF veteran, Jon transformed into a self-educated American Academy of Dramatic Arts graduate (NYC), producer of Latino variety series ALGO ESPECIAL: VAYA! (Canal 47 Televisa NYC), TV executive for ABC (NYC), Fox TV, MGM (LA), writer-producer of Demi Moore’s debut film CHOICES (Goldwyn, Orion, MGM), director teen film OUT 2 LUNCH! Wrote-directed "outrageous diversity satire" IRISH WHISKEY, 1990s period award winning critically acclaimed feature film exploring trendy anti-racism, women, forgotten Vietnam vets issue themes (trailer: https://youtu.be/yZ40Yxt96GE). Following a long battle including 30,000 door-to-door crusade to prove film merits "fair to artist" distribution (chronicled in Los Angeles Times full page story & documentary BUICKS DON'T BUY (https://youtu.be/jE8RusvaXLA), Jon has secured distribution to license the film to U.S. SVOD, AVOD, TVOD "streaming" platforms, and is preparing to self-distribute the film theatrically in US smaller cities starting with a series of Vietnam War Veterans Tribute screenings. Jon wrote scripts for Cannon, Epic, Nu-Image, served as Literary Agent, MGM production accountant, DGA UPM, script consultant, published 8 Kindle AMAZON eBooks including DGA sponsored ACTORS TURNED DIRECTORS: ON ELICITING THE BEST PERFORMANCE FROM AN ACTOR (interviews with Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, Leonard Nimoy, Sydney Pollack, Paul Mazursky, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Hooks, Melanie Mayron, Ronald Maxwell) Jon and his Brazilian wife Lira are developing a 5-film slate starting with the packaging & funding of their Brazil, Broadway, Seville-Spain dance worlds set romantic-thriller QUEST based on Jon's Amazon published DANCER FROM BRAZIL novel, to be followed by "diversity" comedy-fantasy-action GALAXY WARRIOR WANNABE, Latino crime family saga UPRIGHT AMERICAN CITIZENS (aka BATTLEZAONE MIAMI), inspired by true events AMERICAN SHOOTER, all based on his Amazon published novels, plus MICKS, an updated Irish Whiskey remake with recognizable name cast "diversity satire" exploring contemporary anti-racism, women, gender, dysfunctional family, spiritual, and Middle East war vet issue themes. Gracias.

John, I live in Canyon Country. Let's meet for coffee. Jon Stevens. EM me at: jon.stevensorg11@gmail.com

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A few years ago I made a feature length film titled, 'Whatever Makes You Happy'. I did the fest circuit, got into a few, won an award or two, and have been working with my distributor to get the film out there as much as I can. Last month my distributor told me that he is working to try and get my film into netflix. Which I don't need to tell you all would be a great feather in the cap for my film, myself, and all of my hard working cast and crew. But I need help from as many people as I can to get to make this happen. Right now, the film is in netflix's library, but is not active. Which it has been explained to me means that they have the film and are still deciding if they want to pick it up and make it available for their customers. What would help this go my way, is if as many people as possible go to their netflix accounts and request the movie become available. If you have a DVD by mail account, its a very simple process- just do a search for the movie title 'Whatever Makes You Happy', and when it comes up save it to your DVD queue. Done. And thank you. If you have a streaming only account, though, it is a little more involved- you have to contact customer service by phone or online chat directly and specifically ask for the film. That's a little more involved, surely, but while there you can also request other film or shows you'd like them to get. When I did it myself I also put in a request for Polanski's first English language film 'Cul-de-sac'. Great film- I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it. I don't know how probable this is of happening, whether my film has any realistic shot of getting onto netflix, and I doubt there is any chance of a big payday coming my way even if it does. While netflix does spend $2 billion plus a year on licensing fees for all their content, once you take into account that Disney alone gets $400 million of that, never mind what Sony, Viacom, Time Warner, etc. get for their content, its unlikely something like my lil' old film would get more than the cost of postage if they take it on. But again, its a feather in the cap thing. for everyone involved. A welcome bit of validation for all our hard work. You can check out the film, learn more about it and the people involved, and even find links to watch it on other platforms before deciding if its netflix worthy, by visiting the film official website at: www.wmyh-film.com Any help you all could give would be most appreciated.

Hey, everybody. Please watch my shortened 15 minute wri-dir reel featuring scene from Demi Moore's debut feature film CHOICES. Thanks. Link: http://youtu.be/ubnh_O3GY8Y

This is great. One of the best books on Hollywood studio producing, fresh today as it was 20 years ago is: Hello, He Lied by Lynda Obst (Sleepless in Seattle producer). Transplanted here from NYC, I can appreciate NY even more now. People are down to earth. They may tell you to go f-ck yourself, but at least you always know where you stand, which is why I'm shooting my next film RISING TRIUMPHANT in NYC rather than California.

Hi Jon, Thanks for the invite. Cheers, Pierre.

Aloha from Kauai, Jon! :)

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Tribute to indie filmmakers tenacity. 35mm, 90 min feature film shot with Panavision cameras, 17 actors, 40 person crew, 22 day shoot, $28K cash. Film title: IRISH WHISKEY: http://youtu.be/pNi-cdGewCQ

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Make Money Self-Distributing Your Film: http://youtu.be/_EHfrSB-2Ao via @YouTube

I'm an independent filmmaker who resides in Canyon Country, CA., currently casting my feature film RISING TRIUMPHANT, a romantic-thriller set in the global dance world (see demo: http://youtu.be/Q-uvXm_HIK4) We just released a SAG Cast Breakdown in LA & NY, and are working towards a shooting start at end of October (subject to completion of casting of course). Success in life is dependent on our attitude. I thank God every day for my blessings, and fight the good fight of faith knowing if God be for me, who can be against me. I am a warrior for my art.

http://youtu.be/pNi-cdGewCQ Revised wri-dir Jon Stevens reel

WRITER-DIRECTOR REEL - JON STEVENS: http://youtu.be/UeOmLHVPT08 via @youtube including scene from CHOICES, Demi Moore's debut feature film

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