About Alison McMahan

Alison McMahan, Ph.D., is a writer and filmmaker. She is the president of Homunculus Productions and Homunculus Music. She has over twenty years of experience in film production, both in the U.S. and abroad. From 2001-2003 she held a Mellon Fellowship in Visual Culture at Vassar College where she built a virtual reality environment with a biofeedback interface for CAVEs. From 1997 to 2001 she was an associate professor, teaching film history and theory and new media at the University of Amsterdam. She has taught screenwriting in numerous venues, including the Hudson Valley Writer’s Association and the Emerson College extension program in the Netherlands.

She is the author of numerous scholarly articles on film and new media, as well as the award-winning book Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum 2002) and The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Continuum 2005). For a full list of publications, see www.AlisonMcMahan.com

She was co-president of Cinewomen NY, an all-volunteer organization that supports women filmmakers, especially filmmakers just starting out. See www.cinewomenny.org. She spearheaded the recent joining of forces between Cinewomen NY and New York Women in Film and Television. She currently moderates Show and Grow, a program of free test screenings for rough-cut films by NYWIFT members. http://www.cinewomenny.org/cinewomen.org/showAndGrow.htm

She has a BFA in Drama (Catholic University), an MFA in Film Production (New York University) and a Ph.D. in Film Studies (Union Institute & University).