Alison Maclean

Alison Maclean

Nacimiento : 1958-07-31, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of Sex and the City, The Tudors, Homicide: Life On the Street), commercials and feature films. Her works include the music video Torn (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998), the short film Kitchen Sink (1989) and the feature films Jesus' Son (1999) starring Billy Crudup and Crush (1992) starring Marcia Gay Harden. Alison Maclean was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1958, to New Zealand-born parents. Her first short film, Kitchen Sink, a surreal suburban nightmare, debuted in Cannes in 1989 and won eight international awards. Maclean moved to New York in 1992. Her film Crush was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. After several years developing projects she got her second feature, Jesus' Son (1999), starring Billy Crudup and Samantha Morton (with Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Denis Leary and Jack Black in supporting roles). The film is based on the short stories by cult US writer Denis Johnson. She is represented by Park Pictures in New York. In association with Scenarios USA, Alison Maclean is directing the winner of New York "What's the REAL DEAL" contest for 12-22 year olds, "The choices we make" by graduating senior Tiara Bennett of Clara Barton High School in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Luke Geissbuhler is the Director of Photography. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alison Maclean, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Perfil

Alison Maclean

Películas

The Rehearsal
Screenplay
Un estudiante de interpretación usa el escándalo familiar de su novia como material para crear la función de fin de curso de la escuela de arte dramático.
The Rehearsal
Director
Un estudiante de interpretación usa el escándalo familiar de su novia como material para crear la función de fin de curso de la escuela de arte dramático.
The Professor
Director
A professor at a West Coast college dreams of marrying a cowboy.
Intolerable
Director
A casting director puts a group of actors through hell.
Persons of Interest
Director
A documentary concerning the detention of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.
Jesus' Son
Director
Estados Unidos en 1970. FH tiene problemas con las drogas y se dedica a hacer pequeñas estafas para conseguir dinero rápido, a la vez que trata de dar sentido a una intensa, aunque destructiva, relación que mantiene con una hermosa joven, Michelle. También se siente impulsado por un abrumador deseo de ayudar a aquellos que tiene a su alrededor, aunque siempre suele estropearlo todo. Poco a poco, tropieza con la sobriedad y el camino hacia la redención.
Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground
Director
The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and range from stories of compassion and love to reflections on violence and loss. Among them: a disabled beggar quarrels with a woman and ruins her shoes with his wheelchair, provoking onlookers to wrath and pity; a skittish tourist proves to be her own worst enemy; a newlywed trysts with a mysterious sexpot; a commuter helplessly witnesses a suicide attempt; and, in the most affecting segment, a young woman grieves over her mother's imminent death.
Crush
Screenplay
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.
Crush
Director
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.
Kitchen Sink
Writer
From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.
Kitchen Sink
Director
From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.
Talkback
Writer
A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
Talkback
Director
A radio compere is forced to take the late shift and finds her night going places she couldn't have imagined.
Rud's Wife
Producer
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.
Rud's Wife
Writer
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.
Rud's Wife
Director
Nan, recently widowed by Rud, a religious eccentric, treats her idolised son Mark and his family to a Sunday roast. An ironic comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.
Taunt
Director
Mystery and menace abound in this debut film from Alison Maclean (Crush, The Rehearsal). Made when Maclean was an Elam art student, the experimental short plays with gender and racial stereotypes by constantly thwarting narrative expectations. What there is of a plot consists of a woman emerging from the sea and a 'centrepiece' pursuit leading to a confrontation between two characters: a man and a woman.