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series Electric Dreams, a multicultural British -American co -production, which also streams on Amazon. The Santa Ana Philip K. Dick Multicultural Dystopian & Science Fiction Film Challenge (October 2018 - March 2019): This five-month filmmaking challenge will be launched during the 9th OC Film Fiesta in October 2018, and winning films created as part of this challenge will be screened during the 7th Philip K. Dick Film Festival in March 2019. Philip K. Dick Film Festival (March 2019): Funds will be used to bring partner with the Philip K. Dick Film Festival to bring the event to Santa Ana for a historic first presentation of the festival in California, in order to celebrate and recognize Santa Ana's role in inspiring the multicultural world represented in the author's later work. The Philip K. Dick festival will take place in a number of venues, including Picture Show at Main Place, Santa Ana College and the Santa Ana Public Library. Additionally, the festival will also plan a screening and community celebration at the Ebell Club, which is located one block from Philip K. Dick's home, and other community spaces relevant to Philip K. Dick's history in Santa Ana. The PKD Festival will also host a discussion of PKD's metaphysical VALIS Trilogy, which was written in Santa Ana and is full of stories about the author's time here. Grant funds will print posters, postcards and bookmarks, which will be distributed at libraries and locations throughout Santa Ana to promote artistic engagement from residents, youth, students and visitors from all six wards in the city. We will also support creative placemaking by conducting a "Philip K. Dick Walking Tour" of Santa Ana and creating a "Philip K. Dick Psychogeographic Map," highlighting places where Philip K. Dick lived and frequented in Santa Ana and Orange County. The PKD festival will also be promoted at WonderCon, which takes place in March 2019 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Approximately 40% of PKD Festival submissions come from Southern California, and the PKD community is heavily represented in the LA/OC area. This combines to assure a large turnout of visitors from throughout the region, which would help return the city's investment in this project by creating new customers for local restaurants, businesses and venues participating in the festival. Where possible, grant funds will be used for Santa Ana vendors and businesses in order to broaden the impact of the project's investment in the local arts economy. MASA brings a significant outreach infrastructure that includes more than 2,000 contacts, including local, regional and national media, academics, filmmakers, community organizations, arts organizations, funders and festival fans. We also maintain two websites, www.masamedia.org and www.ocfilmfiesta.org, which are updated regularly. Additionally, we print and distribute 5,000 postcards, posters and create a colorful pdf festival catalogue, which is uploaded to our website and emailed to our outreach list, providing statewide and national exposure. We also send out regular updates via Mail Chimp and social media before, during and after the festival. The project's impact is communicated via news coverage, social media and presentations to City Council, business groups and community organizations. We receive regular consistent Media Arts Santa Ana (MASA) Page 2 of 5