BIO

Simon has produced or supervised the production of nearly two dozen films, including Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve, and What Dreams May Come, starring Robin Williams. Most recently, he produced and directed the film version of Neale Donald Walsch’s bestseller, Conversations with God, as well as Indigo, an independent film about spiritually gifted children. Simon is a cofounder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle, which delivers meaningful, spiritually-themed movies to its members every month. He expresses his passion for the emerging category of spiritual cinema in his book, The Force Is With You: Mystical Movie Messages That Inspire Our Lives. For more information, visit www.cwgthemovie.com and www.spiritualcinemacircle.com.

STORY EXCERPT

The courier left, and Chuck showed the film to Amanda and some of her friends. Chuck said to me, “Stephen, I have to be honest with you. I didn’t watch the film, and I may never have the courage to watch the film. But I watched Amanda watch the film. And when it got to the painted-world sequence, I saw all the fear disappear from my daughter’s eyes. She became completely peaceful. The next day, she asked me to take her out to a park. She wanted to see the fall colors one more time. And the day after that, she died very peacefully.”